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ITALIAN RECIPES TRADITIONAL AND CREATIVE 

colomba cake

colomba cake

colomba cake

 

easter recipe cooking recipe: Colomba Pasquale (Easter dove) , Italian traditional  Easter cake.

colomba pasquale ingredients  colomba pasquale

a classic sweet of the Italian tradition: not too easy to make at home, but of great satisfaction. A curiosity. the colomba (dove), the traditional cake for Easter, was launched  with this recipe by a great candy maker of Milan, Angelo Motta, which invented  a version for Easter of the Panettone. But if we investigate more carefully about its origins we find cakes in a shape of dove in the ancient Rome: the ancient colomba was symbol of peace and it was made with bread. We have  traces of  sweet bread in the shape of dove in the year 500 in Pavia and in the year 1000 in Legnano, both towns are near Milan.

This the traditional recipe, for a perfect cake, as from an Italian bakery.

italian traditional recipesgo to other italian traditional recipesrecipes for easterRECIPES FOR EASTER

BASIC INGREDIENTSEGGS AND FLOUR
typologyTRADITIONAL RECIPE
ConservationPOSSIBLE
seasonSPRING
difficultiesHIGH


cooking time
Timetable
serving time         served 210 minutes (minimum)
cooking time clip artcooking15 minutes
rest time rest5 minutes
cooker clip artworking15 minutes

suggested winesuggested wine: dessert wine, also sparkling

ingredients for 6 persons

YEAST with vanilla flavoroz 125 GRAMS
COMMON WHEAT FLOURlb 1 oz 5600 GRAMS
SALT1 pinch1 pinch
EGGS55
BUTTERoz 9260 GRAMS
LEMON1/21/2
MILK1 cup10 ml
SUGARoz 9150 GRAMS
CANDIED FRUITSoz 2+1/270 GRAMS
COARSE GRAIN SUGARoz 3+1/2100 GRAMS
SWEET shelled ALMONDSoz 130 grams

 

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Notes to the recipe: for cooking the colomba on commerce are available many baking pans with the typical shape of flying dove, either in oven paper or metallic, which make the work without a doubt easier. Should you wish to make it without the baking  pan you can try to make it by hand...as people made at once.

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