Italian pies have always been famous for their exquisite flavor. It is believed that it was in Italy, or rather in the former Roman Empire, that they first began to prepare baked goods. Adopting the experience of their ancestors, the Italians began to develop more delicious baking recipes and gradually came up with the perfect pies.
Later, the idea of baking spread throughout Europe. France in particular skillfully adopted baking recipes. However, other countries were also able to learn traditional recipes that remain iconic to this day.
Nowadays, Italian pastries are known all over the world. Let’s prepare a simple Italian pie in 15 minutes.
Ingredients for Italian pie dough:
- Butter – 70 g;
- Sugar – 70 g;
- Egg – 2 pcs;
- Sour cream – 130 g;
- Flour – 150 g;
- Baking powder – tsp;
- Vanilla sugar – 5 g;
Ingredients for the filling:
- Walnuts – 100 g;
- Sugar – 70 g;
- Butter – 30 g.
Preparation of Italian pie:
Beat butter to whitening with a mixer, pour granulated sugar to it.
Continue to beat butter with sugar until the grains of sand are dissolved.
Break eggs to the butter, continue to beat the mixture
until
homogeneous
.
Add the sour cream to the mixture and mix thoroughly with a spatula
. Pour the flour, baking powder and vanilla
sugar into
the mixture and knead a thick dough.
For the filling, crush the nuts into crumbs, mix with the sugar and melted butter.
½ of the
dough onto the surface of the baking dish. Put ½ of the filling on the dough, fill it with the rest of the dough.
Spread the rest of the filling on top.
Bake the cake at 180 degrees for 35 minutes.
As a result, we have a delicious puffy pie with walnut filling. A great pie option for people tired of the usual berry and fruit fillings.
