Your next favorite cake? Ricotta, chocolate and amaretti tart, believe me!
Super fragrant thanks to crumbly cocoa-flavoured pastry and super delicious thanks to the creamy chocolate filling.
And what about amaretti cookies? That’s an amazing combination.
MAKES 1 cake tin 24 cm in diameter
READY IN 1 hour
INGREDIENTS:
300g 00 flour
1 egg
1 egg yolk
150 g butter
150 g sugar
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 pinch salt
1 tablespoon cocoa powder
200 g ricotta cheese
3-4 tablespoons hazelnut cream
1 tablespoon icing sugar
1 egg
5-6 soft amaretti cookies
cocoa powder to taste
3-4 soft amaretti cookies
STEP 1: MAKE THE COCOA SHORTCRUST PASTRY
Make the cocoa shortcrust pastry by mixing the first block of ingredients (i.e.: flour, whole egg, egg yolk, butter, sugar, yeast, salt and cocoa powder).
You can decide to do it by hand, simply kneading into a bowl or use a mixer (the one with the blades) to mix the ingredients together.
When you get a ball give it a rounded shape, then wrap it in kitchen film and rest into the refrigerator.
STEP 2: MAKE THE FILLING
Place in a bowl: ricotta, hazelnut cream, sugar, egg and crumbled amaretti biscuits.
Stir with a spoon to combine the ingredients.
STEP 3: ROLL OUT THE DOUGH
Remove the cocoa shortcrust pastry from the fridge, remove the film and cut off a small piece (approximately ¼) you will use it in step 5 to make the lozenges.
Roll out the rest of the dough with a rolling pin, placing the pastry between two sheets of baking paper lightly dusted with cocoa powder. You should get a circle 3-4 cm larger than the cake pan.
STEP 4: FILL THE CAKE
Place the pastry into the cake tin, pressing to the bottom and edges (keep the bottom sheet of baking paper but remove the top one).
Spread the filling with the back of the spoon.
Dust the surface with crumbled amaretti biscuits.
STEP 5: MAKE THE TART WAVES
Take the piece of pastry left aside in step 3, divide it into bite-sized pieces and make sausages as long as the cake tin.
Arrange the sausages on the cake to form the classic tart weave.
STEP 6: COOK
Cook the cake in a preheated oven at 180°C for approx. 40 – 45 minutes.
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