Ricotta Dove
"In Italy, a traditional Easter cake is “la Colomba” (the Dove) and it's very difficult to prepare. Here you have our easier verision using ricotta cheese."
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- Ready In:
- 1hr 5mins
- Ingredients:
- 11
- Yields:
-
4 little cake
- Serves:
- 4-6
ingredients
- 300 g ricotta cheese
- 15 g yeast
- 3 eggs
- 300 g sugar
- 150 g all-purpose flour
- 150 g potato flour
- 120 g butter
- 1 little glass cognac
- 1 orange, juice of
- 100 g chocolate
- 50 g candied orange and citron
directions
- Beat eggs with sugar. Melt butter and add it with all the other ingredients.
- Finally add yeast sifted. (sometimes instead of chocolate we use raisin put in orang juice 1 hour before.) To frost, grind 45 gr almonds, add 150 sugar and then add 1 egg white until you obtain a cream.
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