Main Dishes

Torta Della Nonna

by Editorial Staff

Summary

Prep Time 40 mins
Total Time 40 mins
Course Baking
Cuisine European
Servings (Default: 1)

Ingredients

For the shortcrust pastry:

  • 2 egg (s)
  • 200 g butter
  • 200 g suar
  • 270 g flour

For the cream:

  • 2 egg yolks
  • 0.5 liter ½ milk
  • 3 tablespoon flour
  • 3 tablespoon sugar
  • 1 handful pine nuts for sprinkling
  • some aroma (lemon aroma)
  • Icing sugar (powdered sugar) for sprinkling
Torta Della Nonna
Torta Della Nonna

Instructions

  1. Prepare a simple shortcrust pastry from the ingredients for the dough and then divide it in half. Form two round plates of the same size from the halves and place one of them in a prepared springform pan.
  2. For the cream, put the egg yolk, milk and flour through a sieve in a saucepan, then add the sugar and lemon flavor. Heat the whole thing over a low flame and stir it constantly until a fairly firm cream is formed. Let cool down.
  3. Then spread the cream on the lower sheet of dough in the mold, then place the second sheet on top.
  4. Bake in the preheated oven at 200 ° C for approx. 20 minutes until the dough is through.
  5. Finally sprinkle with pine nuts and icing sugar.
Editorial Staff

About Editorial Staff

The Boss Kitchen editorial staff oversees content review, fact-checking, and recipe verification across the site. Published articles pass through the editorial team before going live, ensuring ingredient lists, techniques, cooking times, and nutritional claims hold up in a home kitchen. The team coordinates contributions across the site writers, handles reader corrections, and maintains consistency in measurement conventions, safety guidance, and dietary labeling. Posts under this byline typically represent team-reviewed reference material, site announcements, or editorial roundups rather than individual-author features, and they are held to the same sourcing standards as bylined recipe and product coverage.

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