Le ricette di Ambra

Plumcake orange

Ingredients: 250 gr flour 00, 250 gr sugar, 170 g butter, 4 eggs, 50 g milk, juice and zest of 1 orange, 1 packet of yeast

Execution: Grate the orange rind, add the butter, sugar and eggs and mix. Add the orange juice, milk, flour and mix. At the end, add the blades moving yeast.
Grease and flour a baking loaf pan and bake at 170 degrees for 45 minutes.

Ciambella morbida

Ingredients: 300 gr farina 00, 300 gr zucchero, 3 uova, 150 gr burro, 1 pizzico di sale, buccia grattuggiata di 1 limone, 1 bustina di lievito

Execution: Montare le uova con lo zucchero, aggiungere tutti gli altri ingredienti e solo alla fine il lievito. Imburrare e infarinare uno stampo da ciambellone ed infornare a 180° per 30 minuti.

N.B. Questa ricetta può essere una base per fare altri dolci

Variazioni

• Torta di Mele

  Aggiungere un pizzico di cannella agli ingredienti base. Condire 2 mele, tagliate a fettine, con limone e zucchero e disporle sulla superficie della torta. Imburrare e infarinare uno stampo da torta ed infornare a 170° per 40 minuti circa.

• Torta variegata al cacao

  Aggiungere un po’ di rhum agli ingredienti base e in metà dell’impasto il cacao amaro. Versare i 2 composti in modo alternato in una teglia da ciambellone o in uno stampo da torta. Imburrarla e infarinarla e infornare a 180° per 30 minuti

Crumbled cheese and chocolate

Ingredients: 300 g flour 00, grated zest of 1 orange, 1 egg, 100 g butter, 5 tablespoons of sugar, 1 packet of yeast

For the filling: 350 gr ricotta sheep, 2 tablespoons sugar, 2 tablespoons milk, 150 g dark chocolate

Preparation of the base: Mix the flour with the butter, add the egg, sugar, grated zest and baking powder.

Preparing filling: Mix the ricotta with the sugar, chocolate and 2 tablespoons milk.
Line a baking sheet with parchment paper pour half of the mixture of the base, pour over the cream cheese and then pour the remaining dough. To distribute the dough gently without pinching with your fingers.
Bake at 180 degrees for about 40 minutes.

Valance

Ingredients: 3 whole eggs + 2 egg yolks, 200 gr sugar, 150 gr melted butter, 200 g flour 00, ½ teaspoon of baking powder, grated zest of 1 lemon, 70 g almonds, peeled and chopped

Preparazione: In a bowl, work the eggs with the sugar until they reach a frothy consistency, add gradually the flour (sifted with baking powder), grated rind of the lemon and melted butter cold. Mix well and pour the mixture into a greased and floured baking sheet.
Sprinkle the almonds over the surface. Bake at 160 ° / 170 ° for about 30 minutes. Once cooked and cooled, put the icing sugar.

Cake with cream

Preparazione: Beat eggs with sugar until frothy, add the cream and mix gently, add the rum and then gradually the flour sifted with baking powder. Grease and flour a baking pan, pour the mixture and bake at 180 degrees for about 30/40 minutes.

Ingredients: 250 gr flour 00, 250 g fresh cream, 200 gr sugar, 3 eggs, ½ teaspoon of baking powder, 2 tablespoons of rum

Cheesecake cookies with chocolate

Ingredients: 350 g chocolate biscuits, 250 gr ricotta, 250 gr mascarpone, 100 gr icing sugar, 3 eggs, 30 g flour 00, ½ lemon, a little 'vanilla, 120 g butter

Preparazione:Finely chop the biscuits, add melted butter and mix well. Line the pan with parchment paper, pour the mixture, leveling and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes.
Mix the egg yolks with the ricotta, mascarpone cheese, flour and a little 'vanilla.
Beat the egg whites with the sugar and add the rest. Pour the lemon juice.
Pour this mixture over the cake before putting in the refrigerator and good leveling.
Bake the first 30 minutes at 180 degrees and another 30 minutes at 150 °.
Once cooked in the oven but leave the door open.

Orange cheese tart

Ingredients for the pastry: 300 gr flour 00, 150 grams of butter, 150 grams of sugar, 1 pinch of salt, 3 egg yolks

Ingredients for the filling: 250 g cheese, 100 grams of sugar, 2 eggs, grated zest of 1 orange

Preparing pastry: Sift the flour into a large bowl, make a fountain and put the butter into pieces at room temperature and a pinch of salt. Mix the ingredients with your fingertips until you have large crumbs. Retrain the fountain in the center and put the egg yolks and sugar. Knead the ingredients quickly until you have a smooth dough that you will have to form a ball. If the dough is too dry, wet your hands with cold water and continue to work, most likely the yolks were too small. Once formed the ball, wrap in plastic wrap and let rest in refrigerator for at least an hour.

Cream Preparation: Beat the egg yolks with the sugar, add the ricotta, grated orange peel and mix well. Whisk the egg whites with a pinch of salt and add them to the cream cheese mixing gently from bottom to top.

Final preparation: Take out the pastry from the fridge, roll out half the dough with a rolling pin on waxed paper and place in a baking pie. Prick with a fork the base, pour the cream. Do with the other half of the dough into strips to put the alternate on the tart.
Bake at 180 ° for 30 minutes.

Cream tart with apples

Ingredients for the pastry: 300 gr flour 00, 150 grams of butter, 150 grams of sugar, 1 pinch of salt, 3 egg yolks

Ingredients for the filling: 500 ml of whole milk, 4 egg yolks, 100 grams of sugar, 50 grams of starch, peel of 1 lemon

For the decoration: 2 apples seasoned with lemon and sugar

Preparing pastry: Sift the flour into a large bowl, make a fountain and put the butter into pieces at room temperature and a pinch of salt.
Mix the ingredients with your fingertips until you have large crumbs. Retrain the fountain in the center and put the egg yolks and sugar. Knead the ingredients quickly until you have a smooth dough that you will have to form a ball. If the dough is too dry, wet your hands with cold water and continue to work, most likely the yolks were too small. Once formed the ball, wrap in plastic wrap and let rest in refrigerator for at least an hour.

Preparing the cream: Pour the milk into a pan and put it on the fire, in the meantime, in another pan Beat the egg yolks with the sugar, add the lemon zest and starch. Mix the ingredients well and then pour the hot milk, mix well and put on the fire the pan until the cream will become thick then remove from heat. Remove the lemon peel. Turn continuously in order to avoid that the cream will stick to the bottom of the pan. As soon as the cream is ready, remove from heat and pour into a bowl.

Final preparation: Take out the pastry from the fridge, roll out about half of the dough with a rolling pin on waxed paper and place in a baking pie. Prick with a fork the base, pour the cream. Arrange the apples on the cake previously cut into slices and seasoned with lemon juice and sugar.
Bake at 180 ° for 30 minutes.

Plumcake yogurt with coconut flakes of chocolate

Ingredients: 1 jar of 125 grams of coconut yogurt Muller, 1 jar of sugar and ½, 3 cups flour 00, 1 jar of oil Corn, 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract, 1 packet of baking powder

Preparazione: Mix the sugar with the eggs, add all other ingredients and mix very well.
Add to the mixture, stirring later, semisweet chocolate chips.
Pour the mixture into a greased and floured loaf pan and bake for 30 minutes at 180 °

Cake with orange, almond and cinnamon

Ingredients: 200 g spelled flour, 1 pinch of salt, 2 oranges, 100 grams of flour 00, 200 grams of sugar, 100 grams of almonds, 3 eggs, 60 grams of corn oil, milk q.b., cinnamon q.b., 16 g of yeast

Preparazione: Toast the almonds in the oven at 150 degrees for 10 minutes. Put them in a blender along with 1 tablespoon of sugar and finely chop. Working the eggs with the sugar, pour in the oil, add the finely grated zest and juice of 2 oranges and almonds, cinnamon and 1 pinch of salt.
2 Pour the flour sifted with the baking powder into the mixture and add the milk to taste to obtain a compound not too dense. Bake at 160 degrees for 25 minutes.

Chiffon cake or american ciambellone

Ingredients: 6 eggs, 285 grams of flour 00, 300 grams of sugar, 120 ml of corn oil, 195 ml of water, 1 packet of yeast, 1 sachet (8 grams) cream of tartar, 1 pinch of salt, grated zest of 1 lemon, 1 vanilla extract

Preparazione: Combine flour, sugar, baking powder and salt in a large bowl setacciandoli the center to add, without stirring, oil, egg yolks, water, lemon zest and spices.
Work all the ingredients for the dough is smooth and homogeneous.
Separately, beat the egg whites with a teaspoon of cream of tartar and then add to the mixture, mixing gently from the bottom up, trying not to remove the egg whites. Pour into a greased bundt very large and bake at 160 ° for 50 minutes and then at 175 ° for 10 minutes.
Cool in oven and let.
Serve topped with a sprinkling of powdered sugar.

Friandises lemon

Ingredients: 3 egg whites, 100 grams of melted butter, 120 grams of flour 00, 125 grams of sugar, 1 pinch of salt, grated rind of 1 lemon ,1 teaspoon baking powder

Preparazione: Melt the butter and let it cool. Beat the egg whites with the salt. Gently combine the egg whites, sugar, lemon rind, flour with baking powder and melted butter, stirring gently.
Put the mixture into the molds and bake in the oven at 18 'degrees for 15 minutes.