Trentino zelten

To bake Trentino Zelten you need the following ingredients (you can vary the amount of dried fruit to suit your taste, or even eliminate one type if you don't like it):

400 g flour

200 g brown sugar

3 eggs

half glass of milk

150 g butter

60 g nuts

100 g dried figs

30 g pine nuts

60 g almonds

30 g candied citron

30 g candied orange peel

1 tablespoon of cinnamon

1 sachet of vanillin

1 sachet of baking powder

half glass of rum

Let's start by preparing the dried fruit. Cut the dried figs and walnuts into small pieces, and place them in a bowl along with the almonds, raisins, pine nuts, citron, zest, and Rum. Let them soak for about six hours, or even better overnight.

For the dough, start by combining the butter with the sugar, vanillin and cinnamon. Mix, and when the consistency is uniform, add the eggs; continue to whisk until the mixture appears soft enough.

At this point, add the flour, sachet of baking powder and, gradually, the milk - and while doing so, keep stirring.

When the mixture is soft and even enough, combine all the dried fruit left to rest along with the Rum and mix it all together.

Now you can pour it into two lined baking pans or cake pans, spreading it well along the entire surface.

Decorate to taste with pine nuts, almonds, walnuts and candied fruit (if you like it) and bake at 180° for thirty minutes (cooking time may vary depending on the type of pan you use: we recommend using a toothpick to check internal cooking).