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This cake is from Mantua city (Lombardy region, North of Italy) and it is closer to a crumble than a proper cake. The word sbrisolona actually comes from briciola, which is Italian for “crumble”.
Serves: 6 | Preparation time: 30 mins | Cooking time: 40 to 50 mins
Preheat the oven to 180°C and take the butter out of the fridge, so it softens at room temperature.
Mix the two flours together and then add the sugar, the almonds, the vanilla extract, the lemon zest and a pinch of salt.
Pour the mixture on a lightly floured flat surface; create a small hole on top of the flour and fill it with the egg yolks and the softened butter. Knead the dough, which must not have a homogeneous, elastic texture, but rather a very crumbly one.
Use some corn flour to lightly cover the inside of a baking tin, then fill the tin with the crumbly dough and level the mixture to a height of about 3 centimeters.
Tip: It’s incredibly difficult to not break the sbrisolona when you transfer it to a serving dish. I suggest you to use a springform pan, so that you can simply open the outside of the tin once the cake is cold.
Bake the sbrisolona for 40 minutes at 180°C. Let it cool down at room temperature and sprinkle with some icing sugar before serving.
Serves: 6 | Preparation time: 30 mins | Cooking time: 40 to 50 mins
- Italian white flour 00 (Soft flour or Pastry flour) : 200 g
- Corn flour: 200 g
- Almonds, blanched, chopped: 200 g
- Almonds, blanched, whole: a handful
- Brown sugar: 180 g
- Butter, unsalted: 100 g
- Egg yolks: 2
- Lemon zest: about 1 lemon
- Vanilla extract: 1 tsp
- Icing sugar as needed
- A pinch of salt
Preheat the oven to 180°C and take the butter out of the fridge, so it softens at room temperature.
Mix the two flours together and then add the sugar, the almonds, the vanilla extract, the lemon zest and a pinch of salt.
Pour the mixture on a lightly floured flat surface; create a small hole on top of the flour and fill it with the egg yolks and the softened butter. Knead the dough, which must not have a homogeneous, elastic texture, but rather a very crumbly one.
Use some corn flour to lightly cover the inside of a baking tin, then fill the tin with the crumbly dough and level the mixture to a height of about 3 centimeters.
Tip: It’s incredibly difficult to not break the sbrisolona when you transfer it to a serving dish. I suggest you to use a springform pan, so that you can simply open the outside of the tin once the cake is cold.
Bake the sbrisolona for 40 minutes at 180°C. Let it cool down at room temperature and sprinkle with some icing sugar before serving.
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