Grandma's cake with custard and pine nuts

GRANDMOTHER'S CAKE RECIPE

For a healthy, low-cost, and waste-free breakfast or snack, eliminate packaged products and snacks and make Grandma's cake. This is a Ligurian dessert that is also very popular in Tuscany., composed of a casing of shortbread covered with pine nuts and icing sugar which hides a filling inside custardThose with a sweet tooth can enrich the original recipe with chocolate chips: it will become the ideal dessert for a genuine snack without sacrificing taste.

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HOW TO PREPARE GRANDMA'S CAKE

Let's see then, step by step, How to make Grandma's cake with custard and pine nuts:

Ingredients

Shortbread

• 500 00 grams of flour
• 250 gr of soft butter
• 3 eggs
• 200 gr sugar
• 2 teaspoons of baking powder

Custard

• 1 / 2 liter of milk
• 150 grams of sugar
• 50 gr of type 00 flour
• 3 eggs
• 1/2 untreated lemon

For the final decoration of the cake

• 3 spoons of pine nuts
• icing sugar (as needed)

Preparation

Custard

• Take a saucepan and combine the eggs, sugar, and sifted flour. Add the milk and the empty lemon half, then place the saucepan over high heat. Keep the heat low and stir constantly until the cream thickens.
• Let it cool, stirring occasionally and in the meantime start preparing the shortbread.

Shortbread

• Mix the flour with the eggs, sugar, yeast and the soft butter cut into pieces. Quickly work the dough until it becomes smooth and homogeneous, then let it rest in the refrigerator for about 30 minutes.
• Roll out the dough into two equal discs about half a centimetre thick.

The cake

• Take a springform pan and line the base with the first disc. Using a fork, prick the surface and then pour in the batter. custard, possibly adding drops of chocolate.
• Level well and cover with the second disc of shortcrust pastry.
• Make sure the edges adhere well and then sprinkle the surface of the cake with pine nuts.
• Bake at about 180 degrees for 35 to 45 minutes depending on your oven.
• Once ready, take the cake out of the oven, let it cool and then sprinkle it with icing sugar.

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Recipes

Recipe Name

Grandma's cake with custard and pine nuts

Author

Don't waste

Posted on

2024-02-17

Preparation time

35M

Cooking time

60M

Total time

95M