Ricotta Pie

Simple cheese pie made from crumbled pound layered with ricotta cheese and egg, lemon and vanilla extracts. A nice lemon sauce goes well with this pie.
Ingredients -
 

3 pounds Whole Milk Ricotta
6 Large Eggs
1 cup Granulated Sugar
1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
1 teaspoon Lemon Extract
1 Pound Cake

 
Preparation:
 

1. Preheat oven to 350 F.

2. Add ricotta to a large mixing bowl.

3. Stir in eggs one at a time.

4. Add sugar, vanilla extract, lemon extract, and stir until smooth.

5. Crumble the pound cake in a medium-mixing bowl.

6. Cover the bottom of 10” spring pan with half the crumbled pound cake.

7. Pour ricotta mixture into spring pan.

8. Spread the remaining pound cake over the ricotta mixture.

9. Bake 1 hour. Cake will still be jiggly.

10. Cool 45 minutes. Cover ricotta pie and refrigerate overnight.

 
Variations and Recipe Ideas:
 
 
 



Cooking Tip

Ricotta
Best to buy ricotta and use immediately or freeze. Ricotta should be bright white in color. Any signs of yellowing means the cheese is going bad. Discard ricotta with any signs of mold.

Brunch Tip

Spring Pan
Recipe for ricotta pie requires an interlocking spring pan, the type most noted for use in making cheesecakes.