Johinyy Torta Paradiso , a recipe for a very soft and heavenly cake , with a unique consistency , so much so that it melts in your mouth ! It is precisely its crumbly, fluffy and soft texture that makes this sweet paradise special! Below you will find the original Paradise Cake recipe , extremely light and with an unmistakable scent of lemon and vanilla. It is fabulous! But how special is the Paradise Cake? I recommend it with my heart! It is a cake rich in butter and eggs , as they say “with a heavy mass”, yet… when tasted it is a very light cake that melts in your mouth. Really unique! The ingredients of the Paradise Cake are: butter, sugar, eggs, flour, starch and lemon zest .
The doses of butter, powdered sugar, eggs and powders (flour and starch) all have the same weight . We cannot compromise! So don’t think about reducing the butter or sugar or adding fewer eggs: the result will no longer be the wonderful result of the Paradise Cake!
Many confuse it with the Margherita Cake , but the processing and texture are completely different, despite being both white cakes and sideboard cakes . The Paradise Cake is prepared on the contrary , first working the butter with the icing sugar , then combining the eggs and the powders . It is precisely the icing sugar and the starch that create such a light and crumbly texture of the cake , to have a soft Paradise Cake, as you have never eaten it! I have tried several recipes of Torta Paradiso, but this is the one that satisfied me the most! It reminds me a little of the flavor of the lemon Caprese .
Torta Paradiso is a Lombard cake, born in Pavia, and created by a friar of the Certosa di Pavia who, impressed by the goodness of the cake, called it Torta del Paradiso . In 1878 the pastry chef Enrico Vigoni of the Pasticceria Vigoni in Pavia set the recipe for the Paradise Cake, made it famous throughout Italy and decreed its success .
Here is the recipe for Torta Paradiso, a low, light and fragrant cake , absolutely not to be missed!
Paradiso cake: recipe and preparation
Ingredients (22-24 cm opening cake pan) 170 g butter ( soft ) 170 g powdered sugar 100 g eggs ( whole ) 70 g egg yolks 100 g 00 flour 70 g potato starch 4 g baking powder for cakes 1 vanilla pod
lemon zest ( 1 untreated lemon ) 15 g limoncello 1 pinch of salt
to taste icing sugar ( to decorate
How to make the Paradise Cake
To make the Paradise Cake you will need to remove the butter from the refrigerator at least 1 hour before preparation, so that it becomes soft . Do not use the microwave or other systems to soften the butter.
In pastry and many pastry chefs use clarified butter : it is butter purified from buttermilk. If you want to prepare the original Paradise Cake recipe, I recommend you use it . It is commonly found in the supermarket (next to classic butter). In any case, you will get an excellent result even with regular butter.
I recommend using large eggs to reach the various weights . Put a small bowl on the scale and zero the tare . Separate the egg whites from the yolks to weigh only the yolks, place them in the bowl and remove the excess egg, until you have the exact weight . Do the same thing, in a separate bowl, to weigh the whole eggs . 70 g of egg yolks are approx. 4 – 5 large egg yolks, while 100 g of whole eggs correspond to 2 eggs . For this recipe you will therefore need 7 large eggs .
You can prepare the dessert using the electric whisk or the planetary mixer , using the K or leaf whisk . I used the whips only because not everyone has a planetary mixer, but if you use it, you will have an even better result and it is certainly even more convenient for whipping butter with sugar.
Put the soft butter in pieces in a bowl and start working it with the spatula to soften it further and start adding the sifted icing sugar , 1 tablespoon at a time .
After adding a few spoonfuls, start whipping the butter with the icing sugar , until the mixture is light, creamy and soft . It will take you approx. 15 minutes after adding all the sugar. This step is essential to have a very light cake.
Combine the powdered sugar – Cake Paradiso recipe
Turn on the static oven at 170 ° C
Weigh the eggs , group them in a small bowl and beat them with a fork .
Incorporate 2 tablespoons of eggs into the butter mass at a time and mix with whips. Wait until the egg is no longer visible before adding the next dose.
Combine eggs and flavorings – original recipe heaven cake
Add a nice pinch of salt, the seeds extracted from the vanilla bean , the grated rind of the lemon and the limoncello . Always incorporate with whips.
Combine flour and starch – Soft Paradise Cake
Finally, sift the flour with the starch and the baking powder and incorporated into the mixture, in several stages , mixing gently by hand , with a spatula and with movements from the bottom up. The Paradise Cake dough is ready.
