Vanilla and Nutella Ciambellone

Ciambelloni have a dough similar to pound cake, but they are wheel-shaped. There are many variations, but perhaps the most common is the bicolor one, which you can find in many bars around here, where you can order a slice to go with your tea or coffee (paying for it, of course). They are objectively good, but just as it happens to me personally with sponge cakes, I find them boring to the palate. For the one I present here, I made a modification that made me rediscover and completely adore it. In general, and especially with sweets, I like to feel more than one texture in what I eat, to bite into different elements, not just a homogeneous dough, no matter how rich it may be. So, I added some chocolate chunks on top of the classic ciambellone, which gave it what it was missing and prevented my partner from having to make the “sacrifice” of eating it all by himself. If you don’t have a mold with a hole in the middle, don’t worry. Make it with whatever you have and it’s fine. Mind you, you won’t be able to call it a ciambellone, because the term refers directly to the shape.

Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to find any significant information about the ciambellone, despite being tired of seeing them everywhere. Since, besides that, I had a day yesterday to get distracted by anything, to search about the life and miracles of what would be the protagonist of Homer Simpson’s most perverse dreams, I ended up reading things that had nothing to do with it and listening to songs by ladies who scream a lot on YouTube, in the best sense of the word. (Has it ever happened to you, suffering this type of teleportation within the internet? Going from one topic to another that have nothing to do with each other, without knowing how?). As for powerful divas, Italy seems to have no doubts about that. Monica Naranjo can be happy, Mina is the official super diva of the country and, may it be so for many years. Yesterday, however, I found one of those things that, personally, made me think that even goddesses make mistakes. When I arrived here in Italy, my partner introduced me to some songs by Mia Martini that he liked a lot. Among them all, there is one, Almeno tu nell’Universo, that gives me goosebumps, even if this genre of music doesn’t make me go crazy. Besides, if you know anything about how the life of this poor lady was, it leaves you feeling very bad. I ask myself, Ms. Mina, we all know that you are “the greatest” in Italy, what was the point of this tribute, other than to show that “and I even more so,” “look how far I can reach without using my hands,” “there, breaking glass,” when in songs like this that is not what counts most, but rather living it to the extreme of making the listener feel that you are telling them something they must believe, even if they don’t want to. Mia Martini had the chocolate chunks of the Ciambellone for this song. Super Mina, with all her super powers, did not.

Vanilla and Nutella Ciambellone

Autor: La ragazza col mattarello

Número de raciones: 8

Tiempo de preparación:  25 minutos

Tiempo de cocción:  50 minutos

Tiempo total:  1 hora 15 minutos

Ingredientes

• 500 g pastry flour
• 250 g butter
• 6 eggs
• 16 g baking powder
• One sachet of vanilla powder, if the baking powder is not one of those that already includes it.
• 300 g sugar
• 1 pinch of salt
• 200 ml milk
• 200 g Nutella
• 100 g dark chocolate
• Powdered sugar for decoration

Instrucciones

1. Leave the eggs and butter out of the fridge for a good while before starting to make the ciambellone, since the eggs must be at room temperature and the butter, soft.
2. Oh, if you have a food processor, I recommend you use it for this recipe, since it is one of those that requires stirring, stirring, and stirring...
3. And we start, of course, by stirring the butter and sugar until they form a homogeneous dough.
4. Add the eggs and the pinch of salt and continue stirring until they have mixed well with the dough.
5. Gradually incorporate the milk, flour, baking powder, and vanilla passed through a sieve, without stopping... Yes, stirring. The dough should be compact, so to speak, like mashed potatoes.
6. Turn on the oven to 180 degrees, so it starts to heat up.
7. Divide the dough into two bowls.
8. In one of them, add the Nutella and mix well with the dough.
9. Grease the mold with butter and a little flour. The mold should be, more or less, 25 cm in diameter.
10. Pour the Nutella dough into the mold.
11. Pour the dough without Nutella on top.
12. Distribute the chocolate that we have cut into small cubes on top.
13. 50 minutes should be more than enough, but it all depends on the oven. Just in case, start checking the ciambellone after 40-45 minutes have passed. Pierce with a toothpick and, if it comes out clean, it's done. If not, leave it for a little longer.
14. Remove from the oven and let cool.
15. When it is cold, sprinkle with powdered sugar passed through a sieve.
16. Note: If the dough is too liquid, add a little more flour. If the eggs are very large or the amount of milk has not been calculated well, it could happen. If it has become too thick, add a few tablespoons of milk.
17. Note 2: Place in the middle height of the oven, as it rises quite a bit.

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