Pandoro Cake
Antonietta 12/12/2012Today we are going to prepare Pandoro cake, it isn’t too difficult to prepare and it doesn’t takes much time; try this recipe, you’ll like it and it’ll bring joyful Christmas! Italian recipe.
Ingredients:
- 250 gramms potato starch,
- 250 gramms flour,
- 250 gramms butter,
- 250 gramms sugar,
- 8 eggs,
- 1 small liquor glass (Brandy or Cognac ),
- 1 lemon juice,
- a pinch of salt,
- 1 envelope of sugared vanillin,
- 1 envelope of baking powder dose for 500 gramms of flour,
- 20 gramms of powdered sugar to sprinkle the Pandoro cake.
Put the butter into a bowl and work until soft.
Add the egg-yolks one by one with sugared vanillin, sugar, liquor and lemon-juice.
Sift and mix potato starch and flour togheter well and add gradually to the mixture.
Beat the egg-whites stiff with salt and add it mixing gently, from dawn to the top.
Add lastly the baking powder, taking care to to distribuite evenly.
Place the pastry into a buttered and floured <pandoro> mold and put into a pre-heated oven. 
Baking for 1 hour in a gentle oven ( 160°) without opening the door and leave the cake 5 minutes longer with the oven off.
Turn <pandoro> upside down on a dish and sprinkle with powdered sugar.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
