Caprese cake for your birthday

Caprice Cake

It's your birthday or a special occasion? Do you want to make a cake and don't know which one? I suggest you Torta Caprese. It's a very delicious italian cake that takes its origins in Caprice island and has become one of the best national cakes. It 'a sweet rather complicated, with most calorics ingredients, but has a unic taste. Now i'm proposing you the traditional recipe, with dark cioccolate, but sometimes make even the special version with withe cioccolate. Let's start by getting indredients first:

Ingredients

• 200g butter
• 250g plain cioccolate
• 200g chopped almonds
• 250g sugar
• 4 eggs
• powdered sugar

Melt the cioccolate in microwave oven or in a water bath and make soften butter.  

Break the eggs, separating the whites from yolks. Put the yolks in a bowl, add sugar and work it with the help of mixer (until their color will appears fair), now whip the albumen with mixer.

Add diced butter in the cream of yolks and sugar and whip with mixer again. When will be amalgamated add melted cioccolate and chopped almonds. Amalgamate all gently adding albumen. Continue to amalgamate trying to incorporate albumen starting from the bottom to top. Line the cake pan with nonstick paper (or with a little bit of butter) and bake it on 140° for 50 minutes.

When cooked  add powdered sugar in top and you Caprice cake is ready to be served. If you want to try the withe version you have to use white cioccolate and lemon zest. This variant has a more delicate 

taste, is a little bit different form the original but is very good too.

For a touch of style you can make singlular portions of Caprice cake using molds for muffins and this is the result

A touch of style

Happy B-Day!!!

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In the previous post I talked about how you set the table with style, now I tell you how to prepare a special bread to serve with that simple we all know. A touch of class even for food, something very simple to do that will be refined on the table: walnuts and black pepper bread and olives bread. Let's see how to prepare:

Ingredients:

•  500g  of flour
•  25g yeast
•  8 walnuts
•  10 olive (green or black as you want)
•  water 
•  salt and black pepper

Preparation:

Put the flour into a large bowl. Dissolve the yeast in a glass of warm water and pour the mixture into the flour. Knead with your hands and add more water until the dough becomes soft and smooth. 

Ball of dough

 Now make a ball and let rest for at least 1 hour in a dry and warm until it reaches twice its volume. 

Dought after 1 hour

Walnuts Bread

Now divide the dough into two equal halves, pitted olives and chopped walnuts. Add the first half a little oil and knead with walnuts, pepper and salt to taste. Once mixed the ingredients with a knife make a cross on the dough and set aside and take the other half.
Add a little bit of oil and stir in the olives with the salt. Do the same cross on this mixture and informed at 180 ° until the two forms of bread are golden brown. To monitor the baking of bread inserted into a toothpick: if the mixture remains attached to the stick than must still cook.

Bread cooked

 
Let cool and serve with sliced ​​bread altrenate normal and in the shape of flower in the bread bin. Nice, don't you think so? Soon I'll post on the Facebook page all my articles of this blog so... Follow Musci Food & Fashion

Who's Coming to Dinner? Stasera Cena a sopresa: Sartù di riso

Sartù di Riso

La cena è un momento importante, spesso si invitano persone a cena per discutere di fatti quotidiani, per fare rivelazioni o per scambiarsi delle semplici opinioni. A volte si invita qualcuno a cena per stupire o sorprendere e se questo friday per qualcuno di voi è proprio "in love" allora ho io la soluzione che cattura l'attenzione: il Sartù di riso. Molti di voi staranno dicendo "e che è sta roba?", tranquilli è uno sformato di riso ricco di contenuto. A tavola si presenta bene sia come aperitivo che come primo piatto, molto saporito per via degli ingredienti ma dal successo garantito. Unico neo: ci vuole un pochino per prepararlo, ma ne vale decisamente la pena! Vi va di provare a farlo? scrivo la ricetta in italiano e poi la traduco in inglese.

Ingredienti per 5 persone (ingredients for 5 people):

• Salsa di pomodoro (tomato sauce)
• 300 g di piselli (peas)
• Pancetta a cubetti (bacon cut into cubes)
• Cipolla (onion)
• olio d'oliva (olive oil)
• 2 uova (eggs)
• 300 g di riso (rice)
• Salame (salami)
• Mozzarella
• Pangrattato (bread crumbs)
• sale (salt) 

Preparazione:

Preriscaldate il forno a 180°. Fate cuocere il riso facendo attenzione a non farlo scuocere. In una padella mettere olio, cipolla e pancetta e lasciate soffriggere qualche minuto. Aggiungete i piselli e lasciate cuocere. In una seconda padella mettere olio e cipolla e fate soffriggere, quando la cipolla sarà dorata aggiungete la conserva e lasciate cuocere.

A cottura ultimata togliete il riso dall'acqua di cottura e unitelo alla salsa girando per bene. Una volta incorporato il sugo aggiungete le due uova intere e mescolate ancora. Unite al riso i piselli e il salame e mantecate fino ad ottenere omogeneità tra gli ingredienti. In ultimo aggiungete la mozzarella a fettine oppure a tocchetti come preferite e disponete il riso con tutti i suoi ingredienti aggiunti in una teglia circolare con buco al centro. Se non avete una cosa del genere allora fate come me: al centro della teglia circolare mettete un bicchiere pieno d'acqua e disponete il riso tutto intorno. Spolverate con il pangrattato e infornate. Lasciate gratinare fino a doratura ed ecco a voi il Sartù bello e fatto, pronto per essere portato in tavola..

Buon appetito!

Procedure:

Preheat oven to 180 °. Cook the rice taking care not to overcook. In a pan add oil, onion and bacon and let cook a few minutes. Add the peas and cook. In a second frying pan add oil and onion and saute, when the onion is browned add the tomato paste and cook.  

Tomato sauce

Peas

When cooked, remove the rice cooking water and add to the sauce by turning right. Once embedded the sauce, add the two whole eggs and mix again. Combined with rice, peas and sausage and stir until consistency among the ingredients. Finally, add the mozzarella in slices or cubes as desired and place the rice with all its added ingredients in a pan with a circular hole in the center.

If you haven't something like that then do like me: in the center of the circular pan put a full glass of water and place the rice all around.  

Now sprinkle with breadcrumbs and bake. Let gratin until browned and here comes the Sartù nice and done. This is an original italian recipe, so i'm vary glade to present the italian taste to my readers...

Bon appetit!