Ciambella Cake - Italian Recipe

📆 2020-12-22

🔖 Pastries

Ciambella is a cake made with a few ingredients, shaped like a giant donut.

This recipe features almonds and chocolate as well as vanilla.

In Italy this dessert is made as a gift for guests, and it’s served with coffee.

The ingredients to prepare this recipe are:

350 gr. Flour

100 gr. Almond Flour

4 Medium Sized Eggs

100 gr. Milk

1 Vanilla Bean

200 gr. Butter

220 gr. Sugar (100 white sugar, 120 brown Sugar)

2 tbsp Chocolate Chips

10 gr. Baking Powder

30 gr Grated Orange Peel

Equipment Needed:

Donut Cake Mold

To prepare this dessert:

Start by checking on the ingredients temperature, all of our ingredients need to be at room temperature.

1.- Mix the butter with the white sugar.

2.- Mix until the resulting mixture is smooth, then add the milk and the almond flour.

3.- Now can add the baking powder.

4.- Continue to stir, while adding half of the chocolate chips.

5.- Now it’s time to add the eggs.

Add one egg at the time, carefully mixing until the egg is absorbed before adding the next one.

6.- Add the flour, a bit at the time and the dough will start to knead.

7.- Once you are done mixing the cake dough, add the remaining cholate chips and the brown sugar.

8.- Half teaspoon of salt is recommended as it will help you get a softer cake.

9.- To add the vanilla, we need to cut it in half, and then scrape the vanilla seeds in the dough using a knife.

10.- Also add the grated orange peel to enhance the flavor.

11.- Spread some butter in the cake mold, pour the cake dough in it, and let it set for a minute to get a even surface, then cook in preheated oven at 160°C for 40 minutes.

Use a toothpick and stick it into the cake to check if the cake is cooked well, as the dough should not stick to it.

12.- Allow the Ciambella to cool down before taking it off the cake mold to prevent the Ciambella from breaking.

13.- Serve this dessert cold, sliced with coffee and chocolate, and garnish with powdered sugar.

50 gr. Of the flour can be switched with cocoa powder to get a chocolate Ciambella.

Also add more chocolate chips if you prepare the chocolate variation.

Video recipe: Italian Ciambella Cake

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