Description
A milk based dessert, Latteruolo is a great example of a simple Italian countryside sweet with delicate flavor.
Ingredients
Scale
- 2 cups 500 gr whole milk
- 3 oz 85 gr caster sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1.76 oz 50 gr flour type 00, sifted
- 6 egg yolks
- 2 egg whites
- 1 pinch of salt
- powdered sugar (to dust)
Instructions
- In a medium sauce pan, dissolve the sugar into milk at low heat, then add the vanilla extract and let simmer for 40 minutes. Allow to cool completely.
- Preheat the oven at 350 F degrees.
- Grease a 9 inch cake pan with baking spray to butter and flour. Set aside.
- With a hand or stand mixer, beat the egg yolks until yellow and frothy.
- Add the flour little by little and continue to beat until incorporated.
- Slowly add the milk and stir.
- With a hand or stand mixer, whip the egg whites with a pinch of salt at stiff peaks.
- Fold gently the whipped egg whites into the milk mixture.
- Pour the cake butter into the pan and bake for 30 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.
- Allow to cool in its pan.
- Unmold the dessert onto a serving plate and dust with powdered sugar before serving.
- Category: Cake, Dessert, Dolci
- Cuisine: Italian