Italian soffioni cakes, lemon cream with ricotta

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   The first thing you need to do is make the dough. To do this, mix all the ingredients in a bowl: olive oil, sugar, a pinch of salt and mix well until smooth.

2. Step 2:

   

   Sift the flour into the resulting mixture and knead a thick dough.

3. Step 3:

   

   Put the dough in a bag or wrap it in plastic wrap. And put it in the refrigerator for half an hour.

4. Step 4:

   

   Now you need to make a cream. To do this, carefully separate the yolks from the proteins.

5. Step 5:

   

   Remove the zest from the lemon. Only the upper yellow part of the peel. Using a fine grater.

6. Step 6:

   

   Then mix the egg yolks, lemon zest, sugar in a bowl and beat with a mixer for five minutes until white.

7. Step 7:

   

   Now add the ricotta and whisk for a couple more minutes until smooth.

9. Step 8:

   

   Add a pinch of salt to the proteins, a few drops of lemon juice and also beat well until dense peaks.

10. Step 9:

    

    Now mix everything carefully with a spatula until smooth. Whipped whites and yolks with ricotta.

11. Step 10:

    

    We take the dough out of the refrigerator. Sprinkle the work surface with flour, the dough is also sprinkled with a little flour on top. Thinly roll out the dough, about 1 millimeter thick and cut into squares of ten by ten centimeters.

12. Step 11:

    

    We put the squares of dough into cupcake molds. The edges should hang down. The molds can be used metal or silicone.

13. Step 12:

    

    We spread the cream inside, completely filling out the forms. And cover it with the free corners of the dough.

14. Step 13:

    

    Bake cakes in a preheated oven to one hundred and eighty degrees for twenty minutes. Then reduce the temperature to one hundred and fifty degrees and bake for another twenty minutes.

15. Step 14:

    

    Dessert needs to be cooled down a little and removed from the molds. Then sprinkle with powdered sugar and Italian soffioni cakes are ready.