I knew from the start. To make the cakes is a special talent, you need the touch, which I'm afraid to have the green thumb. For the record, I was able to kill even the sage in the pot on the balcony.
So, some time ago, for a special invitation, I thought to prepare one of my favorite desserts: the "pie heaven." I tried many times and I was able to make it good a few times.
is not a small thing. We need the right weather conditions: low humidity, but light winds, mild temperatures and clear skies.
"all stupid", you say, "What can the weather outside has to do with what happens in the oven at home?".
I've always been skeptical of the turn, but in this case, the recommendations of those who passed me an old family recipe, they have always proved to be pretty damn conclusive. If it is raining or too cold, too windy or if it is cloudy, the "paradise cake" will be a disaster.
The trouble is that the recipe does not use yeast and, thus, in the absence of the cake will be sitting right conditions. Useless hope for a better fate.
This time, I really hope to do it the right way. I wanted to cuddle me and especially my host, but ... I was wrong! Damn me and my laziness in buying a kitchen scale.
Thus, discovering that 300 grams of sugar in a jug graduated, are not equal to 300 grams of flour, until the mixture has been mixed, making the initial good will of no use.
The pie is not growing and, worse yet, not cooked on time. Thus, opening the tin, my paradise crumbles into a thousand pieces, and I am well aware that much of the cake was still raw.
So what? What to do? This sudden! Recovery of the heart cake still raw and proceed with firing two pastry rings, trying to accomplish those two will become "Biscottoni paradise."
Now, however, let me share with you the precious and ancient recipe of pie heaven. " This will copy word for word, without changes or corrections. Follow the recipe and, above all, remember under what weather conditions should be created, if not, forget the very beginning. But if the cake
fail, then ... will indeed be a paradise. A cake so brittle that you seem to bite air smells of sugar and butter. A dream come true, especially for the sweet tooth.
RECIPE Ingredients: 300 grams of butter, 300 grams of sugar, 2 eggs, 3 egg yolks, 150 grams of flour, 150 grams of starch.
Procedure: Work along the butter in a bowl, using a wooden spoon. Add sugar and continue stirring.
Whisk the eggs and yolks separately and add to mixture one tablespoon at a time. Mix the flour and potato starch and mix well together, stirring very lightly and never hit the spoon on the bowl.
butter Grease a baking dish, pour the mixture and bake for 60 minutes over medium heat. Since the ingredients are made, not stirring, and always in the same direction.
If desired, sprinkle cake with powdered sugar.
about my dinner, "paradise biscuits" were hard but brittle and thus edible, combined with a good spoonful of soft ice cream and a glass of sweet wine of Piedmont.
In hindsight there are many things you would do differently, but in the end, a sweet taste and an exchange of smiles is always something gained.
