biscuits filled with jam and chocolate

These biscuits make you think to English teatime, a green park, to Jane Austen's characters, perhaps Hethcliff!!

And it's simple to do!

Cake of the Princess

With this recipe i take part to the contest  francescav-chiama-italia in order to celebrate this important date  for my country, the dream of a united nation, the sense of belonging to our culture, language, and art as the trait-d'union throughout the centuries and the different governments: as our Roberto Benigni during his interesting lesson of history said: in order to make one's own dreams come true, you have to wake up! So here we are awake and present to honour what others before us delivered to us : our flag!

                                              

     

chocolate biscuits with cocoa beans (paul.a.young recipe)

With this recipe I take part to the contest julskitchen-se-tu-fossi-una-ricetta. (if you were a recipe, which recipe would you be?)

So if I was a recipe, I would ... I would be some chocolate biscuits. But not any chocolate biscuits, it's not accident that I've chosen a paul.a.young's recipe, one of the most famous chocolatier in the world.

paul.a.young

I would be these biscuits because I do very like chocolate in all its forms and creations. It's that taste, among different sweet things, that I even unconsciously seek, when I need something sweet to eat; and it satisfies me even in small quantity.

Sponge Cake

Ingredients for 22 cm baking pan:

7 eggs the closer to room temperature the better 

180 g sugar 

180 g flour 

30 g potato starch 

1/2 vanilla bean 

Preheat oven to 160° 

1. Sift the flour with potato starch and the vanilla's seeds. Mix well. In a separate bowl put the eggs with sugar and whisk them for about 10 minutes until you earn a very frothy cream, then add the flours and mix gently with a spatula, continue until all of the flour mixture is incorporated. 

2. Spoon the cake mixture into the prepared pan and gently beat it on the table to remove air bubbles. 

3. Bake for about 35 minutes or until nicely brown and a toothpick inserted into the centre of the cake comes out dry. You can fill it with ganache, fruits, whipped cream, jam whatever you prefer.