Tuscan pine nut cake, video recipe

Giulia (or Juls) lives in the countryside between Siena and Florence. She is a food blogger and cooking class instructor but above all Giulia is a dreamer. Every week she gives us a new romantic story on her blog: she writes about food, recipes and memories, revealing always something new about her Tuscan life.
The Tuscan Pine nut cake is a traditional cake from Siena but it’s also part of Juls’ childhood. In her blog she talks about afternoons spent with his grandad in San Gimignano picking up pine nuts at the park outside the city walls.

” Now the park is unfortunately different, they cut down my huge shady pine trees, but if I close my eyes I can still hear the gravel crunching under my child feet, and the balsamic smell of the pine resin (…) I ate one pine nut after the other with my hands blackened by the fairy pine nut shell dust, leaving just a tiny handful for a possible cake.

That’s why I waited so long to make my first pine nut cake! This is a recipe with a long story, my favorite kind of recipes”.

Ingredients

For the cake mixture

• 180 g of butter at room temperature
• 150 g of caster sugar
• 3 eggs
• 180 g of organic tender wheat flour
• 10 g of baking powder
• 1 handful of shelled pine nuts

For the custard

• 3 egg yolks
• 4 tablespoons of caster sugar
• 2 tablespoons of wheat flour
• 500 ml of whole milk
• 2 tablespoons of raisins, soaked in Vin Santo (Tuscan sweet wine)

About Giulia Scarpaleggia
Giulia (or Juls) is a freelance food writer. She developes recipes for magazines and companies and she is a Tuscan cooking class instructor for foreigners and Italians.

Follow the step by step photo recipe, here http://www.turismo.intoscana.it/allth…