Ricotta Cake with Strawberries

Ricotta Cake with Strawberries 🍰🍓 Ricotta Cake with Strawberries 🍓🍰

Ricotta cake has its roots in Italian cuisine, particularly in the southern regions of Italy. It is traditionally made during special occasions and holidays but is enjoyed year-round for its delicious flavor and moist creamy texture.

Ricotta Cake with Strawberries

Relatively easy to prepare, the ingredients are straightforward and commonly found in most kitchens. It’s also versatile. You can add your favorite flavors such as lemon zest, chocolate chips, candied fruit, liqueur, or berries without altering the basic recipe significantly. This flexibility makes it fun to customize and experiment with different variations.

There are no special techniques involved to make this dense yet simultaneously fluffy cake. It’s as simple as mixing the ingredients in the right order and baking. As Ina would say, “How easy is that?”

Ricotta Cake Recipe

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Panettone French Toast & Bacon

LET IT SNOW!

Are you one of the millions of fortunate recipients of the wonderful tall leavened fruitcakes of Milan this Christmas?

Panettone has been made for hundreds of years using live sourdough mother yeast. A combination of old baking art with butter, raisins, citrus rinds and durum wheat in a 50 hour process produces a rich, moist, fresh Italian cake.

Fr. Adam reminded me that a restaurant company we worked for in the 1980’s gave us Panettone for Christmas every year. So he brought one for us here this year. Thanks for the memory and the delicious cake, Fr. A.

I sliced a thick cross-section of the cake. Soaked it thoroughly in two eggs beaten with cream and a pinch of salt. Then cooked it over medium low heat in butter until golden brown on both sides.

Dusted with powdered sugar!

We are fans of good thick bacon from the butcher shop.

You might want to serve it with maple syrup or mascarpone cheese. It was so moist and sweet, we were satisfied with the dusting of sugar and bacon. This cross-section of the Panettone can serve three or four people. Add a cup of hot coffee and enjoy a delicious Holiday Breakfast!

And here’s a Holiday Centerpiece to go with the Holiday Breakfast. A circle of nine 15 inch tall angel vases with stargazer lilies that I am sending over to Sandi at the Whistlestop Cafe for her lovely Centerpiece of the Month event. December will be an awesome month for her centerpiece displays.


Sending Holiday Blessings Your Way…