Cassata cake. Cassata cake is like a cannoli but more gooey. The instructions are given for to make them, or you can use your own recipe. I grew up outside Cleveland, Ohio, and the cassata is the cake of my childhood.
This challenging but rewarding recipe makes one of the most beautiful and delicious cakes you've ever had, a four-tier cake layered with strawberries and custard, and iced with whipped cream. Now it is time to assemble the final product – the cassata cake! First, slice the two cakes in half to get four layers of equal thickness of cake. You can have Cassata cake using 14 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Cassata cake
- You need 2 cup of plain flour.
- You need 2 cup of condensed milk.
- It’s 1 tsp of vanilla extract.
- Prepare 1/4 tsp of butterscotch extract.
- Prepare 1/4 tsp of orange extract.
- It’s 4-5 drop of orange food colour.
- You need 1/2 tbsp of cocoa powder.
- Prepare 1/2 tsp of coffee powder.
- It’s 1 tbsp of chocolate chips.
- It’s 1 tsp of baking powder.
- It’s 1/2 tsp of baking soda.
- You need 3 tbsp of butter, room temperature.
- It’s tin of Butter for greasing.
- You need tin of Plain flour to dust.
Place the bottom layer on a plate or serving tray. Spoon about a third of the strawberries onto the bottom layer of cake, leaving about an inch from the edge uncovered. The filling on this Cassata Cake reminds me of the filling in a Cannoli, another tasty Italian dessert. The filling is made with whole-milk ricotta and mini chocolate chips.
Cassata cake step by step
- Preheat oven at 180° C for 10 min..
- In a big deep bowl, mix and beat condensed milk, butter and vanilla..
- Shift plain flour, baking powder and soda. Gradually mix with batter and beat well..
- Divide into 3 parts. 1cup; 1/2 cup and 1/2 cup..
- In 1cup batter, add cocoa powder and coffee powder. Beat it, keep aside..
- In 1/2cup mix orange extract and 3-4drop orange food colour, beat it. Keep aside..
- In last 1/2 cup mix butterscotch extract and 2 drop orange food colour. Beat it and keep aside.
- Grease 8" tin, dust with maida. 1st add chocolate favoured batter. In middle, add orange flavoured batter and last in middle add butterscotch flavoured batter..
- Sprinkle choco chips, and tab 2-3 times on platform. Put it in oven, bake for 30-35 min..
- Check with toothpick, is it come out dry..
- Rest for 20-30 min. Unmould the cake and serve as ur choice. Enjoy…
The ricotta helps to cut the sweetness of the cake. It takes a while to make, but it's absolutely worth it, as the result is a decadent, lush dessert everyone loves. Cassata — Italian sponge cake filled with layers of homemade custard , fresh strawberries and iced with whipped cream. Peaches, pineapples, kiwi, blueberries, and bananas can be substituted for the strawberries. Place one layer on a cake board or plate and drizzle or brush with rum syrup.
