There are many Italian cake recipes but this one has to be one of my favorites….
It is delicious, quick, easy and with the exception of ricotta cheese, you probably have all the ingredients in your fridge and pantry.
Thanks to Sophie Calloca for the recipe. It is brilliant.
Lemon Ricotta Ring
3 eggs
200 g caster sugar
4 tablespoons extra virgin Olive Oil
170 g Full fat Ricotta Cheese
1 Lemon Zest and juice
1 teaspoon Vanilla essence (optional)
70 g Ground Almond
200 g Self Raising Flour
Preheat Oven 170 degrees Celsius
Grease and line a Ring or Bundt tin
Method:
Combine eggs and sugar and whisk for 2-3 minutes
Add the Oil and Ricotta cheese (It must be full fat cheese, not the low fat option!- Sorry) and mix well.
Stir in the rest of the ingredients until thoroughly combined
Place in tin and cook for 35- 40 minutes till a skewer placed near the center comes out clean of mixture.
Cool in tin for 10 minutes
Dust with cinnamon sugar and Icing sugar and serve!
Something delicious to Ponder About!
This cake looks and sounds delicious. I’ll definitely give it a go. I’ve just spotted your other recipes as well. What have I been missing? I bake too much as it is- another of my passions in life! haha. Thank you, Amanda. 🙂
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Another passion we share, Millie. I am very partial to anything with lemon, pastries and Scandi foods. Tidious Ted at Retro ramblings has some great recipes from the North
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I’ll hop over and have alook later on. Thanks! 🙂
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It’s just as bloody well that I can’t ‘bake’: I’d be 25 stone in a week !!! 🙂
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Apart from the full fat ricotta, there is no (fat) butter in this….
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It’s just that I can’t afford EVER to eat ANY kind of cake or sweets, honestly, Amanda ! Not ever.
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oh that is a shame. I find reducing my portions to very small quantities is more sustainable in the long run. This way I don’t get cravings.
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Np, not for me. The only possible way to avoid instant weight-gain is total abstinence. I eat no desserts, no cakes, no biscuits, no lollies; and in that fashion do I stop my weight from increasing by more than a kilo or day. Or so it often seems … 😦
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You are very strong, M.R.
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Not really. I can’t afford to keep buying clothes …
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Whatever works as your incentive!!
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