Recetas tradicionales italianas
Irresistible Italian desserts and sweets. Homemade, simple, and delicious recipes to impress.
My favorite treat: Lemon tart topped with Italian meringue (crostata meringata al limone). I don’t know if you know that there are different types of meringue. The most commonly used are French and Italian. To make this type of tart, the French one doesn’t work well. The Italian one is cooked while it is being prepared, through the hot syrup…
Another refreshing and easy dessert, but with a mix of flavors original enough to immediately become your favorite candidate for the next dinner party with friends at home. I really like gorgonzola cheese, but I had never tried it in an ice cream, so, once again, I was encouraged to try an experiment. Just on its own, I didn’t feel…
It is infinitely easier and more practical to prepare a good semifreddo than a third-rate ice cream. So, if you feel like a change, to set aside for a moment the most typical summer dessert, without having to give up that frozen touch on the palate, which is so appreciated with the heat we are having these days, this dessert…
Baci di dama are typical cookies from Piedmont that are named as such because, with a greater or lesser effort of imagination, the two cookies joined by chocolate should resemble the lips of two people kissing. They can be made with almonds or hazelnuts and are usually joined with gianduja chocolate (milk chocolate and hazelnuts), but I wanted to try…
I am very proud of this Swiss roll, because it perfectly reflects the state I was in the day before yesterday, when it occurred to me to prepare it. I was having one of those days where I really missed my country and wanted a dessert that would remind me of it, without forgetting that I am in Italy, and…
We finally have delicious strawberries at a good price. This year I felt like eating the first ones with something slightly more elaborate than a spoonful of cream. So I decided to make these crostatine, adding, more or less subtly, some ingredients that pair perfectly with them. As you might remember, I already told you where crostate come from, with…
