The fananina cake is a dessert from Fanano in the Modenese Apennines with both flour and potato starch in the dough, along with ricotta and chocolate chips!
It’s a wholesome homemade cake, that will also appeal to children!
The fananina cake is the classic sweet preparation perfect for breakfast and snack, and it’s a foolproof dessert, requiring no special skills!
On the blog, there are really many sweets and cakes suitable for breakfast and I suggest among those already published:
- Difficulty: Very Easy
- Cost: Inexpensive
- Rest time: 30 Minutes
- Preparation time: 25 Minutes
- Portions: 8
- Cooking methods: Oven
- Cuisine: Regional Italian
Ingredients
- 1 cup sugar
- 4 eggs (separating yolks and whites)
- 2/3 cup all-purpose flour
- 2/3 cup potato starch
- 1 packet baking powder
- 3 1/2 tbsp butter (melted and cooled)
- 3/4 cup chocolate chips
- 1 cup ricotta
Steps
1) For this easy recipe, start by beating the egg whites into stiff peaks in a bowl.
2) In another bowl, beat the yolks with the sugar for 15 minutes, then add the ricotta and the butter melted in a double boiler or microwave and cooled.
3) Then sift together the flour, potato starch, and baking powder; then gently fold in the beaten egg whites using a spatula.
4) Finish the fananina cake batter by adding the lightly floured chocolate chips.
5) Bake in a preheated oven at 350°F for about 30 minutes.
6) Allow to cool, preferably on a cake rack, and then generously dust with powdered sugar.
A simple and quick cake, but delicious, typical of Fanano in the Modenese Apennines, it keeps for 2/3 days at room temperature under a glass dome.
Enjoy your meal!
Annalisa
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Annalisa says…
This is a regional recipe that has a “secret” recipe like the BAROZZI CAKE, the SACHERTORTE patented recipes with ingredients and procedures defined to the millimeter, and thus every possible other recipe is a kind attempt to reproduce the original. This recipe is the most faithful reproduction of the original that I know… Have a great day!
