How to bake torta caprese al limone e al limoncello 🇮🇹

The ingredients: Organic lemons, butter, potato starch or corn starch, caster sugar, almond meal and six eggs

More Ingredients: 1 tsp vanilla extract . 1/2 tsp salt

Preparations

Preheat the oven

Prepare the Baking tray-24cm

Separate the eggs

Prepare the dry ingredients.

Add the rice flour over the almond meal

Add 1/2 tsp salt

Grate the lemons

Sift the dry ingredients mixture

Squeeze the lemons

Lemon juice 250 ml

Now make the cake

Cream the butter and sugar until pale

Add the egg yolks one by one

Add 1 tsp vanilla extract

Add lemon juice alternating with the flour mixture

Beat the egg whites into stiff peaks

And... Fold the egg whites in the batter

Put batter in the prepared baking tray

Bake 10 mins at 200C then▶️

◀️Bake 40 mins at 140C

Out of the oven. Turn it on a cooling rack and let cool completely

Now prepare the frosting: 'royal icing' but instead of egg whites we shall use limoncello

Ingredients for the icing: Limoncello + icing sugar + yellow food coloring

4 - 5 tbsp icing sugar 1-2 tbsp limoncello. Mix add more sugar or more limoncello until you get a spreadable basting consistency. Then add a pinch of color

Pour the frosting over the cake

Spread it

Let it set a bit 10 mins. Then, using a fork, do the above design or any other design. Or you could leave it a plain surface and decorate it with bought white and yellow daisies or whatever

Then when the icing is dry, you can clean the side drippings if you wish.

To get this effect, just use less limoncello royal icing