Wine & Other Stories

Amalfi mini lemon cakes and a Baracchi Wine

Written by Veronica Lavenia

Among the sweetest memories that tourists bring with them from a trip to the Amalfi Coast is, undoubtedly, the unique taste and the unmistakable scent of sweets with lemon. Many specialties, created by pastry chefs of the place (custards, sorbets, cakes, cookies) have, as their main ingredient, lemon. A tradition that continues even in the kitchen of the houses where they prepare delicious desserts and cakes (and not only).

This moist and fragrant recipe is a little tribute to my South, warm, friendly, full of colors and scents. Unique. Places where everyone feels at home.

Brut Trebbiano Metodo Classico 2016 by Baracchi is our suggested wine.

Ingredients
  • 100 g  cornflour (cornstarch)
  • 200 g rice flour
  • 1 teaspoon organic baking powder (organic means no dry chemical baking powder)
  • a pinch of salt
  • 150 g light brown sugar
  • zest of one organic lemon
  • 2 eggs
  • 80 ml milk (or rice drink)
  • 80 ml mild EVOO or 100 ml cold-pressed organic sunflower oil
  • 1 tablespoon Limoncello

 

Method:
  1. Mix together the flours, baking powder, pinch of salt, 100 g brown sugar and set aside.
  2. Whisk the lemon zest in a food processor with the remaining 50 grams of sugar.
  3. Beat the eggs with the milk, add the oil and a tablespoon of Limoncello.?Add gently the liquid ingredients into the dry ingredients, add the lemon zest and stir quickly.
  4. Pour the dough into individual molds, greased and floured.
  5. Bake, in a preheated oven, at 180°C (350°/gas 4), for 15 minutes.

About the author

Veronica Lavenia

PhD.
Writer, book author and magazine contributor, some of her works have appeared in the most popular International magazines.
Digital Content Manager and Communication Manager at "The Wolf Post", since the birth of the platform.

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