Irresistible Italian desserts and sweets. Homemade, simple, and delicious recipes to impress.
Ricotta and chocolate crostata
A delicious Italian-style tart filled with creamy ricotta and rich chocolate.
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Carnival sweets: Frittelle di mela (apple fritters)
Today I propose a very popular carnival recipe from Italian lands: Apple Fritelle: Apple slices, battered with a dough with a flavor similar to that of wind fritters. As you can see, it is a very simple and very economical recipe, but the apple-cinnamon duo needs almost nothing else to succeed. Last year I already told you a little bit…
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Sweet Valentine’s Day temptation with coconut cookie, mascarpone, and strawberry
As a dessert recipe for Valentine’s Day, I propose these towers of coconut cookies, mascarpone cream, and strawberries. They don’t require hard-to-find ingredients and, although it requires making the cookies on one hand and the cream on the other, both steps are extremely simple. I had been wanting to make coconut pasta frolla for a while because, while snooping around,…
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Amarene sciroppate or maraschino cherry brownie
Long live chocolate! And if it comes accompanied by amarene sciroppate and inside a brownie, even more so. Amarene sciroppate, in case you didn’t know, are sour cherries in syrup that are used in Italy to make a ton of desserts. The ones made by Fabbri, as I already told you in the panna cotta post, are the most popular.…
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Bonissima Cake with walnuts, honey, and rum
Last Sunday I made this typical Modena cake, filled with walnuts, honey, and rum for a family celebration, and it was a total success. This summer I went to Bologna and bought a book of typical recipes from Emilia Romagna, which is very good: La Grande Cucina Regionale Italiana: Emilia Romagna by Daniela Guaiti. I hadn’t prepared any of the…
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Almond, limoncello, and white chocolate muffins
Today I bring you some almond, limoncello, and white chocolate muffins that turned out great, almost by accident. For days I had been wanting to make a sweet treat with limoncello, a lemon liqueur typical of some regions in southern Italy, especially Campania. The exquisiteness of this liqueur depends largely on the lemons used to make it. Precisely on the…
