Zuccotto Florentine dessert

Description

I suggest you make Zucotto, which can be the excellent decoration of the Christmas table. Zucotto – traditional Florentine chilled dessert, pie-dome. Zucotto made in the form of pumpkin (zuccotto in Italian means "little pumpkin"). According to legend, the first author of this cake was inspired by the shape of the dome of the Florence Cathedral. The recipe for this dessert I saw at Anastasia Skripkina on the website say7.info and immediately decided that I'll cook:) the Recipe is slightly changed, very small adjustments.

Ingredients

Flour

100 g
Butter

100 g
Chicken egg

2 piece
Sugar

120 g
Vanilla sugar

1 pack
Leavening agent

1 pack
Cocoa powder

20 g
Sour cream

3 Tbsp
Cream

300 g
Powdered sugar

100 g
Cherry

250 g
Almonds

100 g
Dark chocolate

50 g

Cooking

So, for Zucotto we need: Biscuit: 1. Flour-100 grams. 2. Butter-100 grams. 3. Eggs-2 pieces. 4. Granulated sugar-120 grams. 5. Vanilla sugar-1 packet (in the original recipe there). 6. Baking powder-1 sachet. 7. Cocoa powder-20 grams. 8. Sour cream-3 tablespoons (original recipe is not). Filling: 1. Cream with a fat content of 33-35%-300 grams. 2. Sugar powder-100 grams. 3. Cherry-250 grams. 4. Nuts (I have almonds)-100 grams (original recipe-50 grams). 5. Chocolate-50 grams.

Mix the sifted flour, baking powder, cocoa powder.

To them add the softened butter, mix well.

Egg whisk with sugar and vanilla sugar. In the original recipe the sugar is immediately added to the flour, eggs whipped separately and then added.

Add the sugar-egg mixture to the dough. Mix well. At this stage, will discuss in more detail. The oven I have an old, bakes unevenly, dries one edge. Therefore, when baking a sponge cake I got dry, more like sand. I think it partly out from the fact that sugar was not added to the eggs, and once in the flour, respectively, have not disappeared... So, when I started to redo the biscuit, eggs whipped with sugar. But, it seemed to me that the dough is still a little tight, so I added three tablespoons of sour cream and stirred with a mixer. After that the dough was very airy, akin, rather, to the cream :)

The dough spread on a baking tray lined with baking paper, and level. Put into the oven at 180 degrees for 15-20 minutes. I have baked exactly 20 minutes.

At this time in the form of dessert vistream with cling film. I have a bowl with a diameter of about 20 cm.

Ready cake remove from oven and allow to cool. It turned out just divine!!! Incredibly fluffy, very soft in the mouth direct crumbles and melts :) I think this cake is well suited for rolls. From the cooled sponge cake cut out a circle the diameter of our forms and triangles to cover the wall. I needed 6 triangles and biscuit still left.

Put our triangles in shape, the gaps are closing pieces of the remaining cake. That's how it looks

Prepare the filling. To do this, grind nuts, chocolate (I rubbed on a large grater), cherry. My cherries were frozen, I cut until it has time to melt. After leaked juice. Zelikovich reserve a few berries for decoration.

For the cream whisk the cream and icing sugar. At this stage you have to be very careful that the cream started to turn into butter. Need to whisk until until the mixture thickens and the mixer will start to appear grooves. Once that happens, the beating should stop.