What is Italian curd cake?
Italian cottage cheese is a dessert usually made of ricotta, sugar, strong cream, eggs and vanilla extract. Some less traditional recipes may require adding cream cheese or Mascarpone cheese. The same cake is baked in the oven and cools before serving. Can be made with or without bark. The upper part of the Italian curd cake is commonly sprinkled with powder sugar, but can also be ended with fruit, whipped cream or chocolate sauce.
Ricotta Cheese is the main component of the traditional Italian curd cake. Some recipes can also be used a small amount of mascarpone or cream cheese. Ricotta cheese combines in a bowl with other ingredients such as sugar, eggs, heavy cream and vanilla extract, and thoroughly mixed with an electric blender until a smooth consistency is achieved. Other ingredients, such as flavored extracts or molten chocolate, can be combined with basic ingredients to form a flavored curd cake.
usedThe ricotta number results in a curd cake that is lighter and less creamy than a curd cake based on cream cheese. Even with thorough mixing of this type of cottage cheese, the tendency tends to have a granular texture after it is baked, due to the characteristics of ricotta. Most Italian recipes for cottage cheese also use less sugar than traditional cottage cheese, making it a dessert that is not too sweet.
Italian curd cake can be made with or without bark. If the bark is invited, it is usually made by a combination of either crushed graham biscuits or biscuits with melted butter and pushing the ingredients into the pelvis of the spring. The dough on the curd cake is poured over the bark or poured directly into the spring of the spring if no bark is used and baked in the oven.
Most Italian recipes for a cottage cheese cake requires a cake to be baked for one and a half hours. After the required baking time has elapsedTon is turned off, but the cake is left to rest inside for about half an hour. In addition, this time in the ever heated furnace is necessary to prevent the cake of the curd cake or cracking. When the curd cake is ready to move, it is usually placed in the refrigerator to cool for several hours.
Traditional watering for Italian cottage cheese is powder sugar dust, but other icing can be used according to personal taste. Cream for whipped cream, fresh fruit or chocolate sauce are common toppings. While the Italian curd cake is usually served chilled, it can also be served at room temperature.