Hello everybody, it’s me, Dave, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, genoa cake. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Genoa Cake is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Genoa Cake is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.
As you'd expect from the name, Genoa Cake originated in Italy. There, pandolce is a rich, yeasted cake traditionally eaten at Christmas. But the version known and loved here in Britain is a much simpler affair.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook genoa cake using 11 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Genoa Cake:
- Get 70 grams muscovado sugar
- Take 120 grams butter
- Get 2 eggs, beaten
- Prepare 200 grams mixed dried fruit
- Take 180 grams plain flour
- Make ready 100 grams glace cherries
- Take 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
- Get 1 grated peel of an orange
- Prepare 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- Take 60 ml whole milk
- Get 60 grams ground almonds
Genoa Cake There are various versions of this cake. I always add extra cherries, personally I prefer the cherries. THE HISTORY OF GENOA CAKE (PANDOLCE) Like every dessert that represents Christmas for a city, Pandolce (u pandùce, in Genoese dialect) better known in the UK as Genoa cake, has its own story, or better its stories, to tell. According to someone, the oldest origins of this cake dates back to Persia, where the first day of the year it was tradition to give the king a sweet bread.
Instructions to make Genoa Cake:
- Set the oven to 180C/fan 160/gas 4.
- Line a baking loaf tin with baking parchment paper.
- Add the butter and sugar to a large mixing bowl and beat until the mixture has become light and creamy. Then slowly beat in the eggs until the mixture has become smooth.
- Then add all the remaining ingredients to the mixture and stir well.
- Transfer the mixture to the cake tin.
- Transfer to the preheated oven and bake for 60 minute to 70 minutes.
- To test if the cake batter is cooked stick a skewer in the middle of the cake, if the skewer comes out clean its done.
- Allow to stand for 20-30 minutes in the tin. Then transfer to a cooling rack.
- Enjoy with your coffee or tea.
Cut the cherries into quarters, put in a sieve and rinse under. I was at my parents' last week. It inspired me to have a go at making something just as moist and fruity, with lots and lots of cherries. This is what I came up with. Beat egg whites and cream of tartar until soft peaks form.
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