Chocolate, Amaretti and Ricotta cheese Tart
Recipe by Michela Scopece author of @dolciecoccoledimiki
Ingredients
FOR THE BASE
280 g
Flour 00
20 g
Bitter cocoa powder
150 g
Butter
80 g
Sugar
1
Egg
1
Yolk
8 g
Baking powder
1
Vanilla bean
1 Pinch
Salt
FOR THE FILLING
500 g
Ricotta cheese
40 g
Bitter cocoa powder
100 g
Sugar
100 g
Amaretti
1
Egg
To taste
Cinnamon powder
40 ml
Rum
Match with
Amaretti
Recipe Procedure
01.
Begin to prepare the pastry. Pour the flour, cocoa, yeast and sugar on a pastry board. Add the pinch of salt and the seeds of a vanilla bean. Mix the ingredients by adding the soft butter cut into pieces. Add the egg and yolk. Form a smooth dough and refrigerate for at least half an hour.
02.
Meanwhile, prepare the filling. In a bowl pour the ricotta cheese and sugar. Mix the ingredients with a fork and add the cocoa, egg, rum, cinnamon, and crumbled Amaretti. Form a homogeneous compound.
03.
Cover a 24 cm diameter tart mould with the pastry. Pour the filling and add on the surface other Amaretti as if to form a crumble. Bake at 180 degrees for about 35/40 minutes.
