Peach Crostata with chocolate and amaretti cookies

You don’t need to be a pastry chef to make a cake your guests will never forget. This recipe is very easy, the WOW effect is guarantee.

You will bake a such compact crostata pie you can eat without plate: hold it in your hands, it will not fall apart. well, the time has come: take a pen and a piece of paper to write down the ingredients you need.

Course Breakfast, Dessert

Cuisine Italian

Keyword amaretti, crust pie, peaches

Prep Time 15

Cook Time 45

Ingredients

For the shortcrust pastry:

100 gr butter
2 egg yolks
100 gr sugar
180 gr pastry flour
20 gr whole corn flour

For the stuffing

100 gr amaretti cookies
100 gr chocolate chips
600 gr canned peaches (the weight refers to drained peaches)
syrup of the peaches to taste

Servings 8 people

Instructions

Make the short crust pastry and refrigerate in the fridge: in the bowl of the stand mixer, mix the egg yolks, the flours, and the cold butter diced into small pieces.
Switch on the stand mixer provided with paddle attachment at medium speed; mix until an even but grainy mixture;
Shape it into a ball, wrap in plastic and refrigerate for about two hours;
Pre-heat the oven at 180°C (350°F);
Meanwhile, butter and slightly flour the baking pan. Take the dough out of the fridge and place it onto the pan with your hands; its texture will be very grainy and coarse: compact it with the tips of your fingers; evenly spread the dough in the pan and on the sides;
Prick the surface with the tines of a fork;
Top the pie with finely crumbled amaretti cookies, save their powder;
Add half of the chocolate chips;
Wet the filling with some syrup of the peaches: you will need about 200ml;
Then garnish with peaches. I usually slice the peaches into 4 pieces- they fit the pie better: place them onto the pie and garnish with the remaining chocolate chips and the amaretti powder.
Put the cake onto the low rack position of the oven (the second from the bottom) and bake for 30 minutes, then put it onto the middle rack for 15 minutes;
Let it cool down in the oven with the door open for at least fifteen minutes.