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Cassata Cake Recipe


Cassata Cake Recipe
Cassata Cake

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Ingredients
  • 1 white cake mix
  • 2 1/2 cups whole milk ricotta cheese
  • 1 cup confectioners sugar
  • 1 tbsp. rum or vanilla extract
  • 4 oz. finely chopped chocolate
  • 1/2 cup maraschino cherries, rinsed, dried and chopped
  • 1/3 cup seedless raspberry jam
  • Syrup:
  • 1/4 cup sugar, dissolved in 1/4 cup boiling water
  • 2 tbsp. rum or vanilla extract
  • Topping:
  • 2 cups heavy cream, whipped with 1/2 cup confectioners sugar

Directions
  1. Make cake in 2 (9 inch) cake pans, following directions on box (but substituting 3 large eggs for egg whites)
  2. Mix sugar, chocolate and cherries into ricotta cheese with spatula
  3. Fold in rum or vanilla
  4. For syrup, add rum or vanilla to the sugar water
  5. Slice cooled layers in two, making four even layers
  6. For 3 layers, moisten with syrup, spread evenly with 1/3 jam and 1/3 ricotta mixture
  7. Frost final layer and sides with topping
  8. Option: serve ricotta filling in your favorite tartlets

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