Cake with oranges and ricotta

• Preparation time: 20 minutes
• Cooking time: 40 minutes
• difficulty: very low

How to make ricotta and orange cake

Ingredients for 4 people)

• 250 g of white flour
• 400 g cheese
• 120 g butter
• 3 eggs
• 120 g sugar
• 80 grams of powdered sugar
• 1 untreated orange
• 1 lemon not treated
• 70 g of candied orange peel
• A pinch of salt

Preparation

• Place the flour in a bowl Add a pinch of salt, the softened butter cut into pieces, the powdered sugar, and an egg. Mix well (or, if you prefer, blend everything in a blender) and form a dough ball.
• Wrap it in cling film and let it rest in the refrigerator for thirty minutes. Meanwhile, mix the ricotta with the granulated sugar and lightly beaten eggs until you obtain a smooth, even cream.
• Add the grated citrus zest and orange peel candied fruit. Preheat oven to 180°C.
• Butter a mold 20 cm in diameter. Roll out the dough into a disk about half a cm thick, line the pan, and prick the bottom with a fork.
• Remove excess pasta and set it aside to form strips later.
• Pour the ricotta mixture and arrange the pasta strips on top.
• Bake for about 35/40 minutes, let it cool down, take it out of the oven and, once it has cooled down well, sprinkle it with a little icing sugar.

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