Italian cakes and dessert
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!
Amaretti pudding | Piedmontese bonet
Bonet or amaretti pudding. Traditional Piedmontese dessert. Recipe, menu planning, calories, paired wine.
Caprese cake
Chocolate-and-almond cake, Capri-style. One of the most famous Italian cake, make it at home.
Carnival fritters with Vin Santo
Cenci. Tuscan sweet fritters, typical dish of Carnival. Step-by-step instructions to prepare dough, cut the appropriate shapes and fry them.
Carnival pastries, Trentino style
Typical sweet fritters from Italy for Carnival. Step-by-step instructions to make dough, give shape and fry them. Calories too.
Carnival fritters, Ligurian style
Bugie. Ligurian and Piedmontese sweet fritters for Carnival. Italian recipe. Paired wine.
Carnival fried pastries with Grappa
Italian fried pastries made with grappa in their dough. Recipe, calories. Chiacchiere for Carnival parties.
Carnival fried pastry - Chiacchiere
Chiacchiere: how to make these Carnival sweet fritters, Italy-style. Menu planning, calories, paired wine.
Cherry clafoutis
Cherry clafoutis. Step-by-step recipe, nutrition facts per serving and paired wine.
Clementine and chocolate tart
Clementine and chocolate tart. Recipe, full menu idea, calories and paired wine
Neapolitan pastiera
Neapolitan pastiera. Recipe, menu planning, calories, paired wines. Ricotta tart for Italian menu or buffet party.
French Christmas log cake
SBuche de noel alas Ftench Christmas log cake: preparing dough, filling dough and decorating. Calories, paired wine too
Fritters, Venetian-style
Carnival fritters from Venice: delicious puffy sweets to make for your Carnival party, Italian style.
Fruit tart
Fruit tart. Recipe directions, tips, serving and menu ideas, calories, matched wines.
Apulian iced cookies
Affogagatti. Iced cookies of Apulia. Recipe, menu planning, calories, paired wine.
Savoiardi or lady finger recipe
Savoiardi (lady fingers). Typical Italian cookies of Piedmont. Recipe, menu planning, calories, paired wine.
Lemon sorbet
Lemon sorbet. Recipe, menu planning, calories. Delicious dessert, Italian-style.
Mont Blanc dessert How-To
Mont Blanc. French dessert reworked according Italian style. Recipe, calories, paired wine, tips.
Pandoro: Veronese Christmas cake
Italian Pandoro: the real recipe to prepare this traditional Christmas cake from Italy
Panettone with dried sourdough
Panettone: the authentic recipe for Italian Christmas cake. Directions, tips due to my experience, menu idea, calories, matched wine.
Panforte - Siena honey cake
Panforte: the real recipe for this delicious Christmas cake from Siena
Pepperedbread | Italian panpepato for Xmas
Pepperbread (Panpepato): a traditional chocolate Christmas cake from Italy made with dried fruit, honey, candied fruit, sultanas, chocolate, cinnamon, nutmeg and black pepper.
Potato donuts with citron zest
Potato donuts, Italian-style. Recipe and calories. Italian fried cakes.
Profiteroles recipe
Profiteroles. Step-by-step directions to make cream puff shells, make Chantilly cream and chocolate coating. Calories, menu planning and matched wines.
Ladyfinger pudding cake
Ladyfinger pudding cake. Italian dessert with savoiardi. Recipe, menu planning, calories, matched wine. Children recipe.
Rice cake, Italian style
Rice cake made according to the Italian cuisine. Tasty and easy-to-do Italian cake
Rice fritters
Rice fritters. Typical Italian Carnival fritters. Recipe, calories, alternative cooking instead of frying.
Rice fritters from Umbria
How to prepare rice fritters for Carnival. Typical Italian fried sweets. Calories. Paired dessert wine.
Ricotta pie
Ricotta cake with no short pastry. It is made with ricotta, flour, sugar, eggs, chocolate, sultanas. All the ingredients are stirred together.
Sachertorte or Sacher cake
Sachertorte (Sacher cake). Recipe, menu planning, calories, matched dessert wine. Chocolate cake.
Saint-Honorè cake
Italianized Saint Honoré cake version. Multilayered cake filled with pastry cream and decorated with cream puffs and whipped cream. Recipe and calories.
Easter ring cake from Apulia
Scarcella. Typical Ester ring cake from Apulia. A leavened cake decorated with eggs and decorating sugar. Recipe, menu idea, calories and paired wine.
Fritters with honey and cinnamon
Fritters with honey and cinnamon. Traditional Italian Carnival cake. Recipe, calories, paired wine.
Sicilian cannoli
Sicilian cannoli. Recipe, menu planning, calories, paired wine. Typical cake of Sicilia filled with ricotta cheese, candied fruit and chocolate.
Strawberry tart
Strawberry tart. Recipe directions for a softer shell too. Calories and paired wine are included.
Strawberry tiramisu
Strawberry tiramisu. Pudding with strawberries, ladyfingers and mascarpone. Recipe and calories.
Sweet ravioli
Sweet ravioli. Traditional Italian fried sweets filled with jam for your Carnival parties. Baked version. Recipe, calories, menu idea.
Sweet ravioli from Brescia
Sweet ravioli filled with macaroons and almonds
Watermelon ice
Watermelon ice or gelo di mellone or gelo di anguria. Recipe, menu planning, calories, paired wine. Sicilian dessert.
Sweet fritters with potatoes from Sardinia
Sweet fritters from Sardinia. Zippulas. Fried potato donuts made with saffron, grappa, orange juice.
Our original home cooking
Marzipan flowers and butterflies on a chocolate egg
Let's make a delicious Italian chocolate egg decorated with marzipan
Stuffed cake for a special occasion
Layer cake, Italian style. Filled with chocolate and pastry cream and topped with whipped cream. Decorating ideas too.
A delicious basket full of chocolate eggs
How to make an alternative gift for Easter: a delicious basket full of chocolate eggs.
Apple fritters
Apple fritters from Italy. How to make batter and cooking method. Calories, paired wine.
Apple pie, Italian style
Apple pie. Italian version with apples and bananas enclosed in two sheets of thin shortcrust pastry. Nutrition facts and paired wine are included.
Apple strudel recipe
Apple strudel. Recipe, menu planning, calories and sugar according to healthy eating. Dessert wine to pair
Apple tart
Apple tart. Recipe, tips for serving, paired wine and nutrition facts per serving.
Apricot tart
Apricot tart made with fresh fruit flavored with Cointreau liquor. Calories too.
Baked apple fritters
Baked apple fritters. How to make healthy apple pastries. Calories. menu planning.
Baked Carnival sweets
No-fried Carnival sweets. Low fat cookies, filled with jam, sprinkled with icing sugars, Italy-style. Recipe, calories.
Baked castagnole
Italian baked castagnole. Carnival sweets. Recipe, menu ideas, calories and paired wines.
Handmade cookies with dried fruit
Italian handmade cookies with dried fruit. Recipe, menu planning, calories, paired wine. Cookies to be served at breakfast, afternoon tea and after dinner cakes.
Carnival cake
Carnival cake. Multi-layer sponge cake filled with pastry cream and whipped cream, topped with melted chocolate and marzipan. Tips for kid party menu.
Carnival centerpiece, Italy-style
Edible centerpiece for your Carnival party: colored cookies, marzipan streamers. Calories too.
Castagnole - Carnival fritters, Italy-style
Italian castagnole. Deep-fried Carnival sweets. Recipe, menu ideas, calories and paired wines.
Cherry tart
Cherry tart. Recipe, menu planning, calories, wine to pair. Cake for kids and adult.
Chocolate cake, Italian style
Italian chocolate cake. Recipe, how to serve it, calories, paired wine. Cake with bitter chocolate and nuts.
Chocolate-an-orange tart recipe
Chocolate-and-orange tasty cake made with chocolate cream and fresh oranges. Recipe with calories and nutrition facts.
Chocolate tart
Chocolate tart. Recipe, menu planning, calories. A tasty, speedy cake made with short pastry filled with chocolate-and-cream mixture.
Cocoa, honey and spice bread
Cocoa, honey and spice bread. Italian winter cake ideal for Christmas too. High-calorie cake to be done rarely!
Cooked cherries
Cooked cherries. Recipe, menu planning, calories. A special low-fat dessert.
Strawberries and pastry cream
Strawberries and pastry cream. Recipe, menu planning. Dessert for children and adult.
French summer log cake
Yummy homemade ice cream cake. I teach you how to prepare dough, fill it and garnish. It's like French Christmas log cake. Recipe with calories included.
Fresh grape tart
Fresh grape tart. Special cake for your children. Read carefully the different nutrition facts according to the shell you may use. Calories.
Easy to do grape cake
Easy to do grape cake. Kid friendly cake for fall breakfast and snacks. Mediterranean diet recipe.
Homemade ice-cream cake
Homemade ice-cream cake. Perfect for your summer special occasions. Recipe, calories and wines to pair.
Strawberry salad with orange juice
Strawberry salad dressed with orange juice
Orange jelly
Orange jelly. Recipe, menu planning, calories. Italian dessert made wit orange juice and sweet sparkling wine.
Orange-and-chocolate tart
Orange and chocolate tart made with short pastry filled with fresh orange slices and pastry cream. Calories and menu idea included.
Peach-and-melon salad
Peach-and-melon fruit salad. Recipe, menu planning, calories. No-cooking dessert.
Pineapple-and- kiwi salad, Italian-style
Fresh-and-candied fruit salad for winter menus. Kiwi fruits, candied cherries, pineapple. Recipe, calories.
Pumpkin cake
Pumpkin cake. Made with pumkin flesh, almonds, amaretti, sugar, chestnut honey and flour. Recipe, calories, menu ideas, matched wine.
Candied fruit & ricotta cheese tart
Ricotta and candied fruit tart. Italian cake recipe with directions, calories, full menu idea and paired wines.
Jamaica ring cake
Jamaica ring cake made with cocoa, candied orange and sultanas soaked in rum. For your special event. Calories and matched wine too.
Summer no-sugar fruit salad
Summer fruit salad with no sugar added. Mediterranean diet recipe. Calories and sugars.
Sweet heart, special cake for Valentine's Day.
Sweet heart: chocolate-and-orange cake. Recipe, menu planning, calories, paired wine. Special cake for Valentine Day.
Cooked fruit tart
Pear-and-apple compote tart. Low fat, low sugar and low calorie cake with no butter and eggs. Winter recipe.
The worm village
A multi-layer sponge cake decorated with little pandoro and panettone
Watermelon jelly
Watermelon jelly. Cold dessert for summer menus. Recipe, menu planning, calories. Low-calorie dessert. Paired wine.
Watermelon-and-melon salad
Watermelon-and-melon salad. Summer dessert idea. Recipe, menu planning and calories.
Panettone or Italian Christmas bread recipes
Panettone with dried sourdough
Panettone: the authentic recipe for Italian Christmas cake. Directions, tips due to my experience, menu idea, calories, matched wine.
Panettone recipe with fresh yeast
Step-by-step instructions to do Italian panettone with fresh yeast at home included calories, how to serve it and more tips not to make mistakes.
Emmer panettone | Recipe with sourdough
Emmer (farro) panettone. Leavened with emmer sourdough, enriched with dehydrated fruit instead of candied fruit. A natural cake for people who like healthy eating. Recipe, tips and calories.
Low-fat and low-calorie dessert recipes
Light chestnut cake
Light chestnut cake is a low-calorie cake ideal for all people who have dysmetabolic problems or simplier will not get fat. Very simple-and-quick--to-do cake.
Easy-to-do apple strudel
Easy-to-do and low-calorie apple strudel made with phyllo dough. Comparison with traditional recipe for apple strudel.