Cake Grandma'S Tuscan with cream and pine nuts.

Mauro Goretti Programmatore - Italy.

Cake Grandma'S Tuscan with cream and pine nuts. 

Ingredients. 
470 g white flour 00 
265 caster sugar 
175 g butter (soft and in small pieces) 
7 egg yolks + 1 egg 
7 dl of milk 
2 lemons 
1 tablespoon baking vanilla 
1 tablespoon powdered sugar 
1 pinch of salt 

Preparation. 
Mix flour with sugar, baking powder and salt, to work briefly with the 
butter in small pieces, add to center the yolks, whole egg and the zest of 1 lemon. 
Working very well by mixing all the ingredients to make a paste 
homogeneous, wrap in plastic wrap and put it in the refrigerator for 30 
minutes abundant. Meanwhile boil the milk with the other remaining lemon; mount
5 egg yolks 90 g sugar, 70 g of flour and incorporate us. Combine the hot milk, and 
then cook the cream over low heat, and removing from the flame 
add 15 g of butter in pieces, put on the fire and continue to mix 
very well. Line a baking pan well with baking paper and roll out two thirds of the 
dough to a thickness of 5-6 mm, prick the surface with a fork and pour 
cream now already cold. Heat oven to 180 ° roll out the other disk of dough and 
cover the cake closing the edges, soften the pine nuts in cold water 
10 minutes, distribute them on the surface of the whole cake, fire it, and bake for 40-50 

minutes abundant, churn out, let it cool and sprinkle with icing sugar. 


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