I was reading this book called Cooking by Hand one night and came across a description of a recipe (there are barely any photos in the book) called zuccotto. I liked the name and said it like I was an old Italian man: “zuccccotoo!” V exaggerated, you know? It sounded really interesting: a dessert made with slices of poundcake and put into a mold and stuffed with whipped cream. I did some googling and came across this really fun video of this man making his with lady fingers and flavoring the ricotta with amaretto, chocolate, marscapone and nuts and fruit. When he removed it from the bowl, it looked amazing! I was sold. I made this with poundcake instead of lady fingers and I stuffed it with a few different flavored ricottas. I ended up using my own pound cake recipe but have tested this with store-bought pound cake and it totally works! So if you’re looking for a crazy shortcut, look no further. If you’re making it with pound cake and wanna go with the all homemade route, you’ll want to bake them up. I did this the day before so they were a wee bit drier than they …

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