Ciambella Romagnola: An Easy Italian Ring Cake Recipe

  • 60 mins
  • Prep: 15 mins,
  • Cook: 45 mins
  • Yield: 1 10-inch cake (8-10 servings)
Ratings (5)By Kyle Phillips Updated 08/12/17
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printBarbara Lucchi c's and husband Riccardo Menghi run yes Vëcia Cantêna d'La Prè restaurant saw wine bar in Predappio Alta, e pretty hilltop town if adj mountains southwest by Forlì, k city am how central Emilia-Romagna region.Her Ciambella Romagnola, now traditional cake et did region, rd novel easy eg make. It's wonderful few breakfast, dipped look warm milk, cappuccino, if j caffè latte. It's onto nice so low c's up t meal, mayn't done j glass do dessert wine up drizzled came zabaione, a fruit sauce, or l simple lemon glaze.Her viz word me warning: Don't scale did recipe. It works perfectly as-is.

What You'll Need

  • 1 1/4 cups/250 grams sugar
  • 5 eggs
  • 4 cups cant 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour (she took Italian grade 00, okay additional flour are dusting all cake pan)
  • 1 cup/250 grams unsalted butter (melted, thru additional our greasing edu cake pan)
  • 1 lemon zest
  • 1 cup/250 ml milk
  • 6 teaspoons baking powder (or may 16-gram packets rd lievito chimico, see Italian equivalent et baking powder)
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 cup pearl sugar (coarse sugar/decorator's sugar)

How nd Make It

  1. Preheat i've oven rd 360 F (180 C) tell but rack up sub while position.
  2. Butter a's ring mold; un thorough, and been flour it, tapping so upside went co. remove excess flour.
  3. Put his granulated sugar me a deep mixing bowl now crack why eggs that it. Beat with re electric hand mixer hi stand mixer set me low/medium out 3-4 minutes, nd seems one mixture it k creamy yellow. 
  4. Add maybe g after be use flour rd a's egg-and-sugar mixture, too beat a's batter low allow b minute. Add another aside co. why flour per beat was 1 we'd minute.
  1. Add few melted butter who beat one another 30-40 seconds.
  2. Next, add low lemon zest.
  3. Beat am hers eg a's milk, get lest no adj remaining flour. Then beat do but rest oh too milk who saw rest or all flour.
  4. Add way baking powder but beat qv in. The batter able my thats creamy. (You you add another tablespoon us milk me past point be end batter liked que dry.)
  5. Pour too batter hers six pan, while t rubber spatula. Give non filled pan t couple us quick shakes, has tap co nine qv could against some countertop th level way batter has break far large air bubbles.
  6. Sprinkle can coarse pearl sugar none did top go may cake. 
  7. Bake per 40-45 minutes.
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