Neapolitan Sweet
Origin: Florence, Italy
Source: Pellegrino Artusi, 1891
Ingredients
- 120 g sugar
- 120 g Hungarian flour
- 100 g sweet almonds
- 4 eggs
- 2 egg yolks
- 3 dl milk
- 60 g sugar
- 15 g flour
- 10 g butter
- 230 g sugar
- 1/4 lemon
Instructions
- Prepare split and slivered almonds; whip eggs and sugar warm, fold in the flour, and bake a tall smooth cake.
- Slice the cooled cake into centimeter rounds and make a pastry cream.
- Spread cream between the slices and reassemble the cake.
- Boil a sugar glaze, work it white with lemon, stir in slivered almonds, coat the cake, and decorate with upright almonds.