Sacripantina
Sacripantina
Ingredients :: for 6-8 people:
Sponge cake
- 6 eggs
- sugar 250g
- potato starch (or cornstarch) 75 gr
- 00 flour 75 gr
- 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
- a pinch of salt.
Sacripantina
- Butter 200g
- icing sugar 180g
- 1 cup of strong coffee
- ½ glass of dry liquor
- sponge cake (see recipe) 500g
- cocoa powder 25 g
- Marsala wine (for dipping)
- 4 biscuits
- 3 amaretti cookies.
PREPARATION
Sponge cake
- Divide the egg yolks from the whites and the latter fitted with a whisk metal and stiff peaks form together with a pinch of salt.
- Whip the egg yolks with the sugar until light and fluffy will be.
- At this point add the flour, vanilla, potato starch and gradually the egg whites, stirring gently with a movement from top to bottom.
- Pour into a baking pan lined with baking paper and bake in preheated oven at 180 degrees for about 30 minutes then let cool and baked.
PREPARATION
Sacripantina
- Pound in a mortar amaretti and cookies until a fine powder then mix 30 grams of powdered sugar;
- Divide the sponge cake into 6 discs that will be big and round as the cake pan.
- In a large bowl mix the butter with a wooden spoon and soon will be softened, add the remaining sugar. Continue to work and after a while, add the coffee by adding a tablespoon at a time, and liquor.
- Divide the cream prepared in two equal parts and, in one of the two, add the cocoa powder and mix well.
- Take the round pan and line with cling film, then line the bottom with a disc of sponge cake that spread with Marsala wine.
- Now spread over cocoa cream (using 1/3). Cover with a second disc, brush again with the Marsala and spread over half of the coffee cream (leaving aside two tablespoons to final cover); add another disk and still Marsala and cocoa cream thus continuing until all the ingredients and finish with the last disc of sponge cake.
- Place a weight on top and refrigerate for about 3 hours.
- After this time, remove the cake from the refrigerator and spill on a serving dish, sprinkle with cream aside and sprinkle with the chopped prepared cookies.
- Put back in the fridge and remove it before serving.