The delicious dessert for the whole year: the lemon and limoncello cake.

The cake we present to you today is a soft, fragrant and colorful delight. For those who love the taste of lemon, a real pleasure.

It is prepared with a mixture of limoncello, lemon zest and vanillin. The filling cream is made from egg yolks, milk and sugar, after which it too is flavored with limoncello.

This dessert is also a feast for the eyes, excellent for birthday parties and very popular with children, but it can be prepared for all occasions and throughout the year.

The ingredients

The ingredients are these: 200 grams of double zero flour; 160 grams of butter; 100 grams of sugar; a sachet of vanilla yeast; 130 grams of limoncello; four eggs; a lemon; a envelope of vanillin.

For the cream: four yolks; 100 grams of sugar; 40 milliliters of limoncello; the zest of a lemon; 450 milliliters of milk; 30 grams of zero flour.

The preparation

Take a bowl and whip the eggs with the sugar until you get a light and frothy mixture. The next step is to add the melted butter (after it has cooled) and the limoncello. Lastly, add the grated rind of a lemon and the sifted flour together with the vanilla yeast and vanillin. Everything is well mixed with the electric mixer.

Now take a cake mold of about 25 centimeters in diameter and line it with parchment paper, then pour the above mixture and put in a preheated oven at 180 degrees for about forty minutes. When the dough is cooked, take it out of the oven and put it on a wire rack to warm up.

Finally add limoncello and lemon zest and then pour everything into a saucepan. Bring to a simmer and stir continuously until everything thickens. When you feel that the cream has reached the right degree of compactness, cover it with transparent film (in contact, no skin should form) and store it in the fridge for an hour.

When the cake has completely cooled, cut it into two or three discs of equal size and then spread the cream between the discs (which you will have taken out of the fridge in the meantime). Garnish the surface of the cake with the remaining cream (adding whipped cream) and decorate as you like, for example with spectacular lemon slices, or whatever you like.

Enjoy your meal!