Zaletti Veronesi


Preparation Time: 15 minutes
Cooking Time: 25 minutes
Cuisine: Italian
Category: Cakes
Zaletti Veronesi - Recipe Image

These are moist, fruity and fragrant with lemon and vanilla. Also Amaretto soaked raisins!

TOP TIP

  1. Always wary of suggesting variants of Italian recipes — but these work well with different nuts such as pistachios, and with other alcohols to soak the raisins. Rum is especially good!

Ingredients

Ingredients
100g Polenta
500g Milk
35g Plain Flour
50g Butter
7g Baking Powder
2 Medium Eggs
100g Caster Sugar
100g Raisins
3 Tablespoons Amaretto
50g Pine Nuts
2 Teaspoons Vanilla Extract
Zest of 1 Lemon

Method

  1. Soak the raisins in the Amaretto overnight, or microwave them together for 20 seconds and leave to stand for 20 minutes.
  2. Heat the milk, sugar, vanilla and butter in a pan until it comes to a simmer.
  3. Whisk in the polenta, then add the flour. Cook on a low heat for 5 minutes until thick and smooth.
  4. Transfer the polenta mixture to a stand mixer or bowl and beat until it has cooled slightly — if it’s too hot when you add the eggs, they will scramble.
  5. Beat in the eggs until smooth, then add the lemon zest, pine nuts, soaked raisins and baking powder.
  6. Scoop mounds of the mixture onto a lined baking sheet and bake at 180°C (Fan) for 25 minutes, or until golden.
  7. Dust with icing sugar once cooled.

Instructional Video by Tim

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