italian polenta cake

Amor Polenta cake is known in Italy simply as Amor polenta or Dolce Varese, from the name of the city where this dessert was born. This Italian dessert has a beautiful yellow color, characteristic of this cake, given by the use of polenta flour. This here is one of the many polenta recipes you can find in Italy. Like all traditional Italian recipes, there are different versions of polenta cake that Lombard families have handed down over the years, with very small differences in the doses of the ingredients. The key ingredients, according to Italian tradition, are polenta flour, but the finer version (in Italy it’s called Fioretto) and chopped almonds. It’s traditionally made in an almond cake loaf pan but the usual plum cake mold work fine too.

Amor Polenta Cake Recipe

g (4/5 cup) of all-purpose flour

120 g (1/2 cup + 1 tablespoon) of granulated sugar

80 g (1/2 cup) of fine polenta flour or cornmeal

g (1 stick) of unsalted butter

eggs

70 g (2,4 oz) of peeled almonds

vanilla bean

baking powder

salt

icing sugar

In a bowl, beat together the softened butter, the eggs and sugar for about 5 minutes until pale and creamy. 

add the seeds of the vanilla bean and mix.

Add the baking powder and a pinch of fine salt to the flour then sift them with the help o a flour sieve.

add them to the bowl with the butter-eggs-sugar mixture and beat to combine.

finely chop the peeled almonds until you get a flour.

add the almond flour and the polenta flour. Mix everything very well to combine.

Grease and flour your cake loaf pan then pour the mixture into it. Level the batter with a spatula.

Bake in static oven at 170°C (240 F) for 40 minutes.

Sprinkle with icing sugar and enjoy cut in slices with a cup of tea or coffee.

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