Capellini cakes recipe: 60 photos
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FAQ
🤌 📌 Cappelini cakes are a tasty blend of cheese and pasta that gets whipped together and then breaded + fried. They are traditionally done with angel hair pasta but this joint is doing it with bucatini in a carbonara style.
Timetable for Cooking Pasta
Dried Pasta Cooking Chart | |
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Cooking Time (minutes) | |
Capellini | 5 to 6 |
Egg noodles, regular | 8 to 10 |
Egg noodles, extra wide | 10 to 12 |
Capellini pasta is a cylindrical Italian pasta that's similar in shape to classic spaghetti or angel hair. Capellini translates to “little hairs,” which makes sense given the ultra-thin, long nature of the pasta.
Due to the fragile nature of this pasta shape, it is traditionally served with lighter recipes in the sense of both taste and texture. For example, it is delicious served in soups or broths or light, olive oil-based pasta sauces like Aglio e Olio or a simple Roasted Tomato Sauce.
Most of them seemed to revolve around the concept of making the cake layers from a roll-out, honey flavored, soft cookie dough, and filled with a lightly sweetened sour cream frosting. Some variations called for pourable cake batters to make the layers, and a few had a dulce de leche based frosting.