Tart, cream, figs and strawberries

For the base:

500 g flour 00
18 g baking powder
150 g softened butter
190 g sugar
3 eggs
vanilla
grated lemon peel (optional)

Work all the ingredients quickly, without heating the dough.

Wrap it in the kitchen foil and allow it to rest in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.

Roll the dough with a rolling pin up to a thickness of 0.5 cm. With the round dough cup, form circles and lay them on the tart cake molds.

Drill the bases with a fork.

Bake at 180ºC for 10 minutes.

This dough can also be used for bases for pies and biscuits.

Custard

600 g milk
150 g cream
127 g of egg yolks
165 g sugar
30 g corn amid
30 g rice starch
vanilla
lemon rind

Mix starches and sugar with a whisk, add a ladle of cold milk then the egg yolks. Add the milk and the boiling cream. Bring on the heat and simmer it and let it cool as quickly as possible. Pour the cold and smooth cream into a sac a poche with a smooth round tip of 1 cm in diameter. Leave in the fridge.

Strawberry gel

You can find the Strawberry Gel recipe here

Composition

In a flat dish sprinkle the strawberry gel.
Lay the shortcrust base.
With the sac a poche fill the tart.
Peel and cut figs into wedges. Arrange on the cream.
Garnish with mint leaves.

Thanks Alex!

Sfrappole

We continue with a recipe for carnival time. Today sfrappole!

ingredients:
500 g flour
50 g butter
40 g sugar
3 eggs
1/4 cup brandy
a pinch of salt
Fry oil
icing sugar
alchermes
Mix all ingredients, except icing sugar and alchermes, who will serve only at the end.
Roll out the dough very thin and cut the strips with the wheel.
Fry in hot oil and drain on yellow paper.
Complete with alchermes and icing sugar.

Castagnole is here

Castagnole (carnival treats)

It’s time to think about the carnival treats. We begin with castagnole.

Ingredients:
500 g weak flour
160 g sugar
70 g seed oil
3 eggs
15 g baking
orange juice x mix
alchermes
Fry oil.

Mix all the ingredients. Form small balls and fry in oil. Drain and to absorb excess oil from the paper towel. Switch in granulated sugar and spray alchermes. Sprinkle with powdered sugar.

Chiacchere , Sfrappe, Srappole, the recipe is here

Chocolate chip cookies

Chocolate chip cookies sono i tipici biscotti americani con gocce di cioccolato all’interno. Golosi croccanti fuori, teneri all’interno e facili da preparare.

chocolate chip cookies

Ingredienti per circa 40 biscotti da 25 g (negli States sono sui 40 grammi)
400 g di farina 00 (Rossignoli dolci e sfoglie)
130 g di zucchero semolato
150 g di zucchero Muscovado o Mascobado
150 g di burro fuso e ormai freddo
1 cucchiaino raso di bicarbonato di sodio
pizzico di sale
1 uovo a temperatura ambiente
1 tuorlo a temperatura ambiente
¼  bacca di vaniglia
180 g di gocce di cioccolato fondente

Procedimento:
in una bowl mettere il burro ammorbidito, gli zuccheri e il sale.
Lavorare con la frusta, poi aggiungere le uova e montare fino a quando il composto sarà diventato spumoso.
Aggiungere farina e bicarbonato passati al setaccio e la vaniglia. Mescolare bene e aggiungere le gocce di cioccolato.
Formare delle palline da circa 25 g e disporle in una teglia ricoperta con carta da forno, distanziandole una dall’altra.
Cuocere in forno a 160 gradi per 8/10 minuti.

Truffles Coconat, Ricotta, Cocoa

A recipe for making excellent Truffles.

tartufini

Truffles made ​​by Cristian Stradaioli

Ingredients:
350 g ricotta cheese
160 g sugar
200 g coconut flour
60 g unsweetened cocoa powder

Make a dough with the ricotta, sugar, cocoa powder and 150 g of coconut flour.
Make Truffles and roll them in the remaining coconut.
Leave in refrigerator until ready to serve.

Sigep

Sigep in Rimini, … This year has been a huge success. It is the largest event of homemade ice cream in the world and also for bakery products and coffee.

For me, ice cream lover, is always exciting to go on a tour, to taste new flavors, see new presentations and machinery ….

but most importantly it is an opportunity to spend some hours in the some friends of the sector (Marco Banzola, chef Sporting Milano Marittima), and Luca Naldoni (Gass) that, several years ago, he decided to move to the other part of the world to export the experience of artisan Italian ice cream, before producing it and making it known, then becoming the link between most of the best companies manufacturing products, machinery, equipment, …. in Australia and “beyond”.

Good job Gass!

sigep

Details here: http://www.sigep.it/index.asp