Category Archives For: cinnamon

Basic recipes

White chocolate and cinnamon cream

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, […]

Cakes

Soft cake with moist apple filling

“Cuor di mela” (Apple’s heart) is a super soft and moist cake with rich apple and cinnamon filling. It is a very simple cake to prepare and the poured batter guarantees a delicate but at the same time very fragrant autumn dessert. Fluffy and delicious, prepared with many apples, it is perfect for a sweet […]

Cakes

Italian cinnamon Margherita cake

Soft, fragrant and sweet – the Margherita cake is a Italian classic and when spiced with cinnamon it becomes even more irresistible. Its very simple batter with few ingredients is easy to prepare and makes it a perfect cake for breakfast or an afternoon snack. You can eat it only covered with powdered sugar but […]

Brioches

Easy puff pastry croissants with apples and cinnamon

These mini croissants made with store bought puff pastry, apples and cinnamon are the simplest and fastest croissants you can prepare. They are ready in half an hour and require neither rising times nor kneading but only the premade round puff pastry and a couple of simple ingredients. They are small mouth-watering snacks with puff […]

Brioches

Soft and delicious blueberry rolls with cinnamon

Today’s recipe is for a cinnamon rolls with blueberries (blueberry rolls) which are soft and sweet leavened rolls that are filled with fresh fruit. Thanks to the addition of sugar the blueberries release their juice which thickens in the filling and creates a delicious layer similar to homemade jam. The cinnamon in the dough goes […]

Brioches

Strawberry cinnamon rolls with lemon pastry cream

Strawberry cinnamon rolls are a very soft brioche rolls filled with lemon pastry cream and fresh fruit. These delicate brioches are egg and butter-free but they use mascarpone cheese in the dough that gives them a delicate milky aftertaste. The lemon pastry cream goes perfectly with the tart flavor of fresh strawberries. I made this […]

Cookies

Italian biscotti Cantucci with almonds and spices

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 […]

Cookies

Cardamom and lemon Christmas cookies

These cardamom and lemon Christmas cookies are sweet and with the strong spiced scent and flavor. They are rich in honey and spices such as ginger, cinnamon and cardamom which makes them very fragrant and slightly spicy. They are also enriched with lemon zest and a sweet, but also slightly sour glaze prepared with powdered […]

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