Authentic Italian Cooking
Italian cakes and dessert
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!
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
- Mont Blanc dessert
- 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
- Strawberry tart
- Strawberry tiramisu
- 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
- Apricot tart
- Baked apple fritters
- 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
- Easy to do grape cake
- Homemade ice-cream cake
- Orange-flavoured strawberries
- Orange jelly
- Orange tart with pastry cream
- Peaches and melon salad
- Pineapple & kiwi salad
- Pumpkin cake
- Ricotta cheese and candied fruit tart
- Ring cake, Jamaica-style
- Summer fruit salad without sugar
- 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
- Emmer (farro) panettone whole emmer 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
For cream preparations look at "index recipes for basic preparations"
For light cakes look at "light recipes"
Autore: Loretta Sebastiani
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