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Italian cakes and desserts

This is a section dedicated to dessert recipes: Italian traditional cakes or our original creations. Besides you can find low-fat and low-calories dessert recipe ideas.
Who doesn't love cakes? Very few persons. A cake is the perfect end of a lunch or a dinner; you can also eat them at breakfast and in every moment of the day. There are a great variety of cakes adapted to all seasons and made for special occasions:
Christmas, Easter, birthday ... Italian cakes are famous all over the world. Come on and learn how to make them by your hands!

What you can find here

Traditional recipes - Our original home cooking: our dessert recipes - Panettone recipes - Light dessert recipes -

Traditional recipes


Amaretti pudding Capri almond-and-chocolate cake Carnival knots with Vin Santo Carnival knots, Trentino-style Carnival knots, Ligurian-style Carnival knots with Grappa Chiacchiere - Carnival fried pastry Clafoutis with cherries Clementine and chocolate tart Easter cake or Neapolitan Easter tart French Christmas log cake Fritters, Venetian-style Fruit tart Iced cookies from Apulia Ladyfingers or savoiardi Lemon sorbet Pandoro - Veronese Christmas cake		Panettone - Italian Christmas brioche Panforte - Siena honey cake Panpepato - Pepperedbread Potato doughnuts with citron zest Profiteroles Pudding with savoiardi biscuits (lady fingers) Rice cake Rice fritters Rice fritters from Umbria Ricotta pie, recipe from Piedmont Sacher torte Saint-Honorè cake Scarcella, Easter ring cake from Apulia Small fritters with honey ring cake Sicilian cannoli Sweet ravioli Sweet ravioli from Brescia Tiramisu Watermelon ice or gelo di melone Zippulas, Sardinian fritters

Our original home cooking


A decorated Italian Easter egg A filled sponge cake for a special occasion A little cookie house A sweet basket full of chocolate eggs Apple cake Apple fritters Apple pie Apple strudel Apple tart Baked apple little cakes Baked Carnival cookies Baked castagnole Breakfast cookies Carnival cake Carnival centrepiece, eat and enjoy it! Castagnole Cherry tart Chocolate cake Chocolate & orange tart Chocolate tart Cocoa spiced Christmas bread Cooked cherries		Dessert with strawberries & cream French summer log cake (ice cream cake) Fresh grapes tart Homemade ice-cream cake Orange-flavoured strawberries Orange jelly Orange tart with pastry cream Peaches and melon salad Pineapple & kiwi salad Ricotta cheese and candied fruit tart Ring cake, Jamaica-style Sweet heart Tart with stewed fruit The worm village Water-melon jelly Water-melon & melon salad

Panettone or Italian Christmas bread recipes


Panettone the authentic recipe for panettone with sourdough Panettone with fresh yeast the recipe for people who don't find sourdough		Spelt (farro) panettone whole spelt flour, honey instead of refined sugar, dehydrated pineapple instead of candied fruit, sourdough instead of fresh yeast. A natural low-rise cake for people who like healthy eating.

Low-fat and low-calorie dessert recipes


Light chestnut cake Light pear tart Light shortbread		Easy-to-do strudel Light apple pie

For cream preparations look at "index recipes for basic preparations"
For light cakes look at "light recipes"

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