Qassata Siciliana

Ingredients

• Sweet Pastry 700 grms
• 2 kg ricotta
• Icing sugar 180/200 grms
• Cherries 200 grms
• Almonds 200 grms
• Maraschino liquor
• Apricot jam
• Pasta Reale
• Pure ground Almonds 600
• Icing sugar 500 grms
• Lemon zest
• egg whites 3 to4
• some green color
• For decoration
• Maraschino cherries
• chocolate
• Cream

Method

1.  Line a round cake tin with sweet pastry, and bake blind.
2. Mix the ricotta with the icing sugar, than add the maraschino liquor,finally the cherries and the chopped almonds.
3. Place the ricotta mixture in the baked blind sweet pastry, and cover with sponge, cover with apricot jam.
4. Cover the sponge with the pasta reale and decorate, with cream and the maraschino cherries