for the dough
- 400g
- flour
- 200g
- butter
- 150g
- icing sugar
- 1 pack
- vanilla sugar
- 1 pinch
- salt
- 4
- egg yolk
for the filling
- 1 L
- milk
- 8
- egg yolk
- 250g
- sugar
- 1
- vanilla pod
- 80g
- flour
- 50g
- pine nuts
- 2 tbsp
- icing sugar
Torta della Nonna
1
4 hours
advanced
Ingredients for one cake
Schritt für Schritt - Anleitung
Step 1
Step 1
First put flour, salt and the cold butter in a bowl and mix. Then add sugar, vanilla sugar and egg yolk and work into a dough. Wrap the dough in cling film and let it rest in the fridge for one hour.
Step 2
Step 2
Scrape out the vanilla pod and place the pulp and pod in a pot with the milk. Bring the milk to the boil briefly and then let it stand for 10 minutes.
Cream egg yolk and sugar in a bowl. Add about 1/3 of the milk while stirring. Pass the flour through a sieve into the mixture and stir in. Remove the vanilla pod from the milk and add the sugar, egg yolk and flour mixture to the pot with the milk. Bring to the boil again while stirring and simmer for 3 minutes.
Cover the cream with cling film and let it cool down in the fridge as well.
Step 3
Step 3
Cover the quiche mould with 2/3 of the dough and prick the base several times with a fork. Then pour the cream into the mould, roll out the remaining dough and cover the cream with it. Prick again with a fork. Spread the top of the dough with milk and sprinkle with pine nuts.
Bake in a preheated oven at 180 °C for 45 to 50 minutes. After cooling down, sprinkle with icing sugar.
