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Vegan and dairy free chocolate-pumpkin cake
TORTA VEGANA AL CIOCCOLATO E ZUCCA (ITALIANO) This extra moist chocolate, pumpkin cake, topped with chocolate ganache is a perfect fall treat. It´s so easy and quick to prepar. Chocolate and pumpkin seems like an odd combination, but trust me, it really works. The ultra rich chocolate cake melds so perfectly with the warming spices…
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Profiteroles
PROFITTEROL (ITALIANO) “Happy mother’s day!“ One of my mother’s favorite desserts are the Profiteroles, very famous cream puffs filled with Chantilly cream, covered with a tasty and shiny chocolate glaze. At my home in Italy they were often the Sunday dessert and for this reason I decided to prepare them to celebrate Mother’s Day in…
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Peanut Butter Mousse Crunch Cake
TORTA CROCCANTE AL BURRO DI ARACHIDI E CIOCCOLATO (ITALIANO) This Saturday we’ve have been invited for dinner by our friends Mario and Fabio, two friends from Milan, Italy who have lived in Sydney since 3 years now. Pizza will be the Queen of the night but I need to think about a dessert. What should…
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Macaron
COME FARE I MACARON (ITALIANO) Macaron, Macaron, Macaron! The macaron are delicate cookies with a crunchy exterior and weightless interior. Colorful, can be filled with anything from frosting and salted caramel to lemon curd and chocolate ganache. They have conquered everyone’s heart becoming the spearhead of every pastry shop. The version we know today was…
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Pavlova
PAVLOVA (ITALIANO) There are plenty of tasty and fulfilling recipes you can bake. Also, there are many desserts which we don’t know the origin. Let’s talk about Pavlova. It has been a long standing battle between Australia and New Zealand as to who invented the pavlova. “The Oxford English Dictionary may have settled a long-running…
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Green Tea Biscotti
BISCOTTI DA TE’ (ITALIANO) Who doesn’t love tea and crunchy bikkies? In several posts I spoke about vary kind of pastry and their different structures based on use. When I want sweet and mouth-watering pastries, I choose the FROLLA MONTATA. It si so crunchy because of the high percentage of butter contained and it is…
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Tiramisu’
TIRAMISU (ITALIANO) Oh yeah! We decided to make our great timeless classic: Tiramisu’, the most famous Italian dessert in the world. Of course, as with any iconic dessert, there are a number of variations of the classic recipe. Some people like to sprinkle biscotti (biscuits) throughout the layers to add a bit of crunch; others…
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Pancakes
PANCAKES (ITALIANO) EASY, FLUFFY PANCAKES! 🙂 Breakfast is the most important meal of the day but it is often underestimated because we don’t have much time for prepare it and also … who wants to cook something early in the morning? For most of us, it’s not that we don’t have time to make breakfast.…
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Pastiera Napoletana
LA PASTIERA NAPOLETANA (ITALIANO) I must recognize that the start of 2020 is a clear continuation of the negativity of 2019 but is going fast. We are already at Easter… This unusual Easter which has deprived us of love and people. Let me say that Pasquale and I are not Catholics but we like to…
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Lemon Meringue Tart
TARTE MERINGATA AL LIMONE (ITALIANO) Being in full swing of citrus season it only makes sense to make one of my favourite tarts ever: the lemon meringue tart. I love citrus fruits because contain vitamin C, reinforce the immune system and are a panacea for the mood. Energizing and refreshing the juicy blood oranges, mandarins,…
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