paradise cake

Sunday morning, beautiful numbness, sweet idea to make a cake "soft and fluffy like clouds" said Ale. Here it is. 

torta paradiso

I got this recipe from a more famous foodblogger than me, http://www.lacilieginasullatorta.it/ : the only variation is about cooking time, I  found it too short. Easy recipe but can easily come out wrong as all simple things. Even in this recipe I have heated the eggs with the sugar to 45 degrees according to the method Montersino, before whipping them. 

Serves: 8/10

Ingredients:

• 300g starch
• 200g icing sugar
• 200g soft butter
• 6 eggs
• 1 sachet baking powder
• 1 pinch of salt

Method.

1. Heat the eggs with sugar over low fire up to 45° always whisking, then pour into an electric blender and mix with a pinch of salt for about 15 minutes till you earn a very frothy cream like this:

2. Add the softened butter and continue mixing with the electric blender. Add by hand the starch sifted with the baking powder stirring gently from bottom to top with a spatula to get a homogeneous mixture. Pour into a greased mold covered with parchment paper and bake in preheated oven at 160° for 20 minutes and 180° for 30 minutes, make toothpick test. Let cool and sprinkle with lots of icing sugar.


 

torta paradiso