Puff pastry braid filled with cream cheese, pears and candied fruit is a simple, delicious and rich cake to quickly prepare for guests for a Christmas or New Year’s dinner. It’s a cake that can be prepared in 5 minutes and ready to enjoy in half an hour. A mix similar to strudel and cheesecake […]
These soft Christmas chocolate gianduia cookies with mixed spices are absolutely delicious. They are simple and quick, sweet and spicy, soft and with a rich covering of chopped chocolate. They are cookies with the addition of spreadable cream cheese in the batter which blends perfectly with Christmas flavors such as cinnamon, ginger or cardamom and […]
Christmas tree cheese board is a quick and easy cold appetizer. It’s an idea for a simple but fun and delicious lacto vegetarian finger food platter for Christmas or New Year’s Eve dinner. As you can imagine it’s super easy to put together and impresses with a selection of delicious cheeses, fresh or dried fruit, […]
If you are looking for a fun Christmas cake this cake with white chocolate cream, cinnamon, hazelnuts and rum is perfect for you. It consists of a very light and delicate sponge cake soaked in rum syrup and then stuffed and covered with white chocolate and cinnamon cream. Everything is decorated with chopped hazelnuts, pieces […]
Stuffed pretzel bites are an easy and fun idea for super quick appetizers to prepare for Christmas and New Year’s Eve. It is a delicious cold appetizer served on a dinner with friends and family or for aperitifs. Yummy, very simple to prepare and easily customizable according to your preferences. I created three versions. The […]
The white chocolate and cinnamon cream is really delicious and is perfect for filling Italian pandoro, panettone, Christmas cookies, sponge cake or any other type of dessert. It is a cream without eggs, velvety, fragrant and smooth. It is also very simple to prepare and with few ingredients. You can use it to fill cakes, […]
The lemon white sauce (bechamel) is a creamy and flavorful sauce that is velvety and fragrant sauce perfect with fish dishes, vegetables or baked pasta. It is a variant of the classic bechamel with a pronounced lemon aftertaste and odour. It is a delicate sauce, not at all acidic but citrusy and aromatic. There are […]
This Christmas green velvet poundcake is very simple and quick to prepare, super soft and fun to eat. This fluffy cake is covered with a cream cheese frosting that together with slices of fresh or frozen fruit adds a tart note. The plumcake itself is a very simple vanilla cake, with a delicate flavor and […]
If like me you love hard and not too sweet cookies, these Italian biscotti (cantucci) with almonds and Christmas spices are perfect for you. I modified the traditional cantuccini recipe by adding some olive oil and Christmas spices such as cinnamon, ginger, cardamom and nutmeg. The spices make these biscotti very aromatic and together with […]
This triple chocolate panna cotta is so light and delicate that it melts in your mouth. I have several types of panna cotta on the blog but I must admit this is one of the best. It is super creamy thanks to a balance between cream and gelatine and not too sweet thanks to the […]
