Cake bonanza

I have spent all day making two cakes for lovely Charles and Mr Natty.
Charles loves chocolate and Toy Story so I did a bit of Photoshop work on his photo and added it to the cake.
Mr Natty organized a pop up barber shop on Saturday so he needed a bit of refreshment for his hairy clientele (www.mrnatty.com).  I thought a pair of big "baffi" was  due on the cake! Inside was a lovely sponge layered with cream and strawberry.

Tagliatelle all''uovo

Hand made pasta is not difficult to make. It is really rewarding to make your own pasta and is so tasty. I love any dish made with hand made pasta; ravioli lasagna, tagliolini, cannelloni.
Tagliatelle are large stripe that goes well with sauces such as Bolognese while Tagliolini goes really well with broth.

Ingredients

500 gr flour "oo"
3 eggs

Place the flour on the table with a hole in the middle in which you open the eggs.
Mix all well then work the paste really well until smooth and elastic.
Roll it flat (about 3 mm thick) roll it over like a little sausage and cut it in little slices.
Sprinkle some flour over it and gently open to unravel the tagliatelle.
Cook in plenty of boiling water for only 5 minutes. Pass through a sieve and add sauce of choice.

Goat Cheeses and Grape salad

I love this salad the combination of tangy and sweet is lovely.
Mix lettuce, grapes, goat cheese, chopped walnuts and season with olive oil, salt, pepper and balamic vinegar.

Chocolate and Vanilla Biscuits

Ingredients

250 gr flour
125 gr butter
125 sugar
1 egg
70 gr dark chocolate (70%)
vanilla
pinch of salt


First of all mix the flour and the sugar then the butter, rubbing it in until all nicely mixed then add the egg salt, vanilla. Mix until nice and smooth then add the chopped chocolate and leave to rest in the fridge for an hour.
Take out of the fridge and roll the pastry about 2mm thick. Cut in whatever shape you like and place them in an oven metal tin and cook for about 10 minutes at 160 degree. When ready place them to cool on a metal wire.

torta alla deliziosa

This is a a lemon cake made with lemons zest, juice and limoncello liquor.
It has a very fresh flavour. Close your eyes and you are back into a gozzo bobbing up and down the Amalfitan coast.

Ingredients:

Pan di Spagna ( made as in the cassata recipes or fruit cake in previous post)
Custard Cream (as made for Fruit Cake in previous post)

Mix the cream with limoncello (about a small glass) a couple of spoon of lemon juice and mix well.
Add whipped cream About 5 spoons mixing gently.
Cut the sponge in half and fill with the lemon cream.
Cover with whipped cream and decorate as you like.
Buona!