{"id":2480,"date":"2010-12-29T05:05:41","date_gmt":"2010-12-29T12:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marialiberati.com\/?p=2480"},"modified":"2010-12-29T05:05:41","modified_gmt":"2010-12-29T12:05:41","slug":"cassola-a-traditional-jewish-italian-dessert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/2010\/12\/29\/cassola-a-traditional-jewish-italian-dessert\/","title":{"rendered":"Cassola..A Traditional Jewish-Italian Dessert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>copyright 2010 art of living, PrimaMedia,Inc\/Maria Liberati<br \/>\n\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marialiberati.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Ricotta_cheesecake.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2481\" title=\"Ricotta_cheesecake\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marialiberati.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Ricotta_cheesecake-150x150.jpg?resize=150%2C150&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nCassola is traditionally a Jewish dessert, but because the main ingredient is fresh ricotta cheese it is also a traditional cheesecake served in Italy. Simple, sweet and delicious as all Italian dishes are, this one only has 5 ingredients and is easy for even the novice cook to whip up. The trick to its&#8217;\u00a0creamy consistency is using freshly made \u00a0ricotta not ricotta that has been made in a processing plant or sitting in the refrigerated aisle of a\u00a0large supermarket for many days. \u00a0Fresh ricotta is creamy, and smooth, and almost nothing like it&#8217;s factory made version.<br \/>\n<strong>Cassola<\/strong><br \/>\n*2 pounds freshly made \u00a0ricotta cheese<br \/>\n*5 whole eggs<br \/>\n*1 1\/3 cups sugar<br \/>\n* grated zest of one fresh lemon<br \/>\n*1\/2 fresh vanilla bean, ground<br \/>\nPreheat oven to\u00a0350 degrees. Place riocotta cheese i na food processor and belnd with a steel balde until smooth. In another bowl, place in eggs, sugar, ground vanilla bean, grated lemon zest. Beat until a \u00a0smooth and creamy mixture.\u00a0 Place into ricotta (already in food processor) about 2 tablesponns at a time.<br \/>\nButter the bottom of 9 1\/2 inch springform pan, then ocntinue ot line with parchment paper. Pour in mixture and place into the oven. Bake for 30-40 minutes. When finished the outer edges will be firm but inside will be a bit soft and will not be firm. Turn off oven when done and continue to leave in oven for 15 minutes. Open oven door and let cool for 15 minutes in oven. This dessert can be eaten warm or cool.<br \/>\nFor more traditional Italian Holiday recipes get your copy of the Award Winning Book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marialiberati.com\/products-page\/bookstore\/the-basic-art-of-italian-cooking-holidays-special-occasions-second-edition\/\">The Basic Art of Italian Cooking: Holidays &amp;\u00a0 Special Occasions-2nd edition<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>copyright 2010 art of living, PrimaMedia,Inc\/Maria Liberati \u00a0 Cassola is traditionally a Jewish dessert, but because the main ingredient is fresh ricotta cheese it is also a traditional cheesecake served&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,27,876,878,564,947,7,30,28,31,11],"tags":[69,1105,6,808,1222,229,427,71,235,1022,907,997,9,101,102,222,286,1223],"class_list":["post-2480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abruzzo","category-caro-diariodear-diary","category-christkindlmarkts","category-christmas","category-coffee","category-country-house-living","category-cucina","category-cucina-povere","category-holidays","category-la-dolce-vita","category-recipes","tag-abruzzo","tag-award-winning-author-maria-liberati","tag-cheese","tag-cheesecake","tag-chrsitmas-dessert","tag-cook","tag-cookbook","tag-cooking","tag-dessert","tag-easy-dinner-recipes","tag-female-celebrity-chef","tag-female-celebrity-chef-maria-liberati","tag-food","tag-italian-cooking","tag-italy","tag-kitchen","tag-lemon","tag-traditional-italian-holiday-dessert"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}