Zuccotto Cake, the Authentic Florentine Recipe
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- 10 Oct 2022
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Zuccotto cake is a famous ancient Italian dessert, originally from Florence. It’s a spoon dessert, delicious for the balance of its ingredients and refined for its simplicity.
Tuscan Zuccotto cake often has pinkish hues, given by Alchermes, an aromatic liquor with a ruby red color with which the sponge cake is dipped. The filling of Zuccotto Fiorentino is made of whipped cream, ricotta cheese and chocolate.
To make the Zuccotto, prepare the soft sponge cake according to the traditional recipe and let it cool. Then cut it into long, thin slices, with which you will have to line a Zuccotto mold, a hemisphere.
The cooking required for this dessert is in fact only that of the sponge cake, for the rest you just assemble its ingredients to make the Zuccotto, without cooking.
Then it’s necessary to let the cake cool in the refrigerator for a few hours, where it compacts and takes its dome shape. Once cooled, you can unmold the Zuccotto on a serving plate and sprinkle it with unsweetened cocoa powder.
The Italian tradition is rich in spoon desserts, all of them truly delicious. Tiramisu is surely the most famous one, but also Zuppa Inglese or Panna Cotta. Even Zuccotto is a very loved dessert not only in Tuscany, but in all Italy and in the world. Read More...
