Pasta here means “paste”, as in “pastry” or dough.
Pasta paradiso is a cake, very similar to Pasta margherita.
The two cakes can appear similar by the list of their ingredients, but they are different both in the ratio of ingredients, and in the way in which the batter is started.
| Pasta paradiso | Pasta margherita |
|---|---|
| 2.5 kg flour | 750 g flour |
| 1.5 kg butter | 200 g melted butter |
| 1 kg sugar | 1.3 kg sugar |
| 250 g of egg yolks | 1.25 kg of egg yolks |
| 1 teaspoon salt | 400 g whole eggs |
| 10 g vanilla extract | 300 g starch |
| 10 g lemon extract | 30 ml of a liqueur |