Summary:Delicious and easy to bake grandma-cake having pine nut and almond slivers on the top garnished with powdered sugar will sure satisfy your craving for desert after meal.
Prep time and Cooking time (duration): 35 minutes
Number of servings (yield): 5
Downloads:
http://cheflive.com/videos/alessandro-stoppa-grandma-cake.mp4
http://cheflive.com/videos/alessandro-stoppa-grandma-cake.ogv
Ingredients for Grandma-Cake::
- 1 ½ cup sugar
- 1 lb butter
- 1 ½ cup all purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon of almond slivers
- 1 table spoon of pine nut slivers
- 1 tablespoon powdered sugar
- 5 tablespoons of pastry cream
- 4 Eggs
Get Ready To Work in “Real Time” to Make Grandma-Cake:
Get out these items and utensils: 1 baking sheet, Ring mold
Get from your pantry: Sugar, all purpose flour, pine nut slivers, almond slivers, and powdered sugar
Get from your refrigerator: Butter, Pastry cream, eggs
Pre-prepare the following:
- Preheat the oven at 350 degree
- Take out the butter from the refrigerator and keep outside about 2 hours before preparing the dough for the cake.
- Break the eggs and remove the egg white just use egg yolks
Prepare dough:
- In the dough mixing machine add butter and sugar and turn on the machine.
- After a while when sugar and butter start mixing add egg yolks and flour and mix thoroughly
- Keep aside the dough and take the pastry cream from the refrigerator
- Put the ring mold on baking sheet and put the dough in the base and around the mold and spread it 1 inch thick properly as shown in the video
- Pour pastry cream and spread properly
- Sprinkle pine nut and almond nut sliver on the top of cake
- Put it in the oven and bake for 20-25 minutes
- Take out from the oven and keep aside for 30 minute to cool it off before taking out of the mold
To Serve:
- On serving plate, put the baked cake and sprinkle powder sugar
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