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Zuppa Inglase

Cuisine: Italian
Type: Dessert
Serves: 12 people

Recipe Ingredients

8   Half eggshells full of marsa
2 tablespoons 30mlSugar
8 teaspoons 40mlLevel sugar
1/2   Whipping cream
1   Spongecake - (10-12 inches dia
1/2 cup 73g / 2.6ozChopped glazed fruit.
1 cup 237mlSweet rum

Recipe Instructions

This is the easy looking one from "The Art of Italian Cooking. Zuppa Inglese means English Soup but is really an Italian rum cake concoction.

Make the Zabaglione (Custard) first. You break egg yolks into top part of double boiler. Add sugar. Beat with until light lemon color and blended.

Add marsala; beat thoroughly again. Put top of double boileron bottom that has water boiling, and cook mixture about 5 minutes or til it begins to thicken. Beat constantly while cooking. Dont. Boil. Set aside to cool.

Slice a spongecake into three layers. Place one layer on plate, pour 1/3 cup rum over. cover with 1/3 of Zambalione. Do 2nd and 3rd layer the same. When good and cold, beat whipping cream with 2 tbls. sugar, and spread over the cake.a Sprinkle with glazed fruit.

Source:
Mario Batali

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