Panettone cake with limoncello

By: Gennaro Contaldo From: Good Food Bites

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Prep time:
20 mins
Cook time:
30 mins
Serves:
6

A delicious Italian lemon drink adds a citrus flavour to panettone in Gennaro Contaldo's deliciously indulgent, Christmas-time dessert

Ingredients

  • knob of Butter
  • handful of plain flour
  • 7 egg yolks
  • 100ml Limoncello liqueur
  • 3 tbsp Sugar
  • 500ml Milk
  • 750g panettone, cut into 2.5cm thick slices to fit a 20cm cake tin
  • icing sugar, for dusting

To serve:

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Method

1. Preheat the oven to 180°C/gas 4. Grease a 20cm cake the tin with the knob of butter and dust with plain flour shaking off any excess. Set aside.

2. Whisk together the egg yolks, limoncello, sugar and milk until well-blended.

3. Place a layer of panettone slices on the bottom of the tin, then pour in about half the egg yolk mixture, followed by more panettone and then top with the rest of the egg yolk mixture.

4. Bake for half an hour. Meanwhile, whisk together the mascarpone, lemon zest and limoncello.

5. Remove from the oven, and turn out upside down onto a serving plate.

6. Dust with sieved icing sugar and serve with lemon mascarpone.

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