Puff of fruit and vanilla pudding

For: 4 persons
Difficulty: low

INGREDIENTS:

• 1 fresh pasta dough
• 1 vanilla pudding
• 300g milk
• 1 melon
• 400 g raspberries
• 60 g shelled pistachios
• 1 yolk
• icing sugar

PREPARATION:

Line a rectangular mold with the dough, left on his card, and prick the bottom with a fork. Cover the dough with aluminum, fill it with dried vegetables and brush the edge with beaten egg yolk and a small cup of milk. Bake it for 15 min at 200 degrees.Eliminated the vegetables and aluminum and cook for another 5 min.

Prepare the pudding followinf the instruction of the pack, with the milk and sugar.Pour it into the dough and let it in the fridge. Blanch the pistachios, rinse the raspberries, clean the melon and cut the flesh into slices and mix everything.Distribute it on the vanilla pudding and serve with a light sprinkling of icing sugar

Puff pastry with fruit

For : 8 persons
Difficulty : medium

INGREDIENTS:

• 400g ready puff pastry
• 5 yolks
• 120g granulated sugar
• 150ml dry Marsala (wine)
• 1 tablespoon cornstarch
• 150g fresh cream 
• 1 bunch black grapes
• 2 tablespoons icing sugar 
• flour

PREPARATION:
Flour the work surface ,roll out the puff pastry (thin) and cut it in to 3 pieces of 18 x 30 cm.
Bake each one for 15 min at 200 degrees.Into a pan whip the yolks and sugar until they will be frothy,add the cornstarch ,the wine and  thicken them over low heat stirring constantly.
Let it cool stirring once in a while and  add the fresh cream. Put one puff pastry and add the cream ,putting on a layer of grapes cut in half and repeat with all the puff pastry and the cream .Let it in the fridge for at least 1h.Serve with icing sugar on top and decorate with some grapes .

Chocolates with hazelnuts

For : 6 persons
Difficulty : low

INGREDIENTS:

• 50g white chocolate
• 150g milk chocolate
• 50g hazelnuts

PREPARATION:

Blanched the hazelnuts in boiling water, remove the peel and toast them in the oven for 5 min.Meanwhile  melt the 2 chocolates in a double boiler.Take a pastry bag , fill it with little white chocolate.Take a mold for chocolate that you prefer and fill it, let it to cool in the refrigerator for 10 min.Pour the milk chocolate to fill each mold and inserted in each one the toasted hazelnuts.

Then put them it in the refrigerator for another 10 min and once the chocolates have solidified, you can seve.

Tiramisu in a cup chocolate

For : 4 persons
Difficulty : low

INGREDIENTS:

• 8 finger biscuits
• 100 ml eggnog
• 80 g milk chocolate
• 4 tablespoons of fresh cream
• 4yolks
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 60 g mascarpone cheese
• 1 tablespoon of sweet marsala

 For decoration:

• 1 teaspoon of instant coffee

PREPARATION:

Cut the biscuits in half and dipped in egg liqueur, and then arrange them on the glasses vertically down , so as not touch the sides.Melt the chocolate with fresh cream and pour warm into glasses.Beat the egg yolks with the sugar in a double boiler always beating until the mixture volume is tripled. Soon as the mixture takes shape, add the marsala and continue beating.Remove from heat and soak in cold water to stop the cooking.Stir in the mascarpone and fill the glasses.Let stand 5 min ,sprinkled with coffee powder decorate as desired with waffles.

Figs with chocolate

For: 4 persons
Difficuty: low

INGREDIENTS:

• 800 dried figs
• 150 g almond
• 2 cloves
• 70 g candied citron 
• a bit of cinnamon
• 100 g dark chocolate grated
• 75 g sugar

 PREPARATION :

  Take dried figs ,open them and place in the middle sighly tosted almond in the oven,a bit of cloves crushed and few bits of candied citron.
Close them  with the fingers and bake on plate.Just beginning to gold remove them from the oven and still warm roll them in a mixted of dark chocolate grated and sugar.
Acording to a most common method you can also soak the figs right out of the oven ,in a saucepan in whom the chocolate was melted with little water and a pinch of cinnamon.
The figs chocolate are kept in wooden boxed or in tin lined with greaseproof paped.

Crisp desert

For :10 persons
Difficulty : low


INGREDIENTS:

• 500g almonds with the skin
• 500 g sugar
• 300 ml water

 PREPARATION:

  Chopped the almonds, put the sugar on fire  with 3 spoon of water, and went it's melted add the almond until they will take a dark gold color.Roll out hot dough on a greased  marble, cut into squares and alllow it to cool.

Cannoli siciliani

For : 10 persons
Difficulty: low

                                                  

                                                   INGREDIENTS :
For waffles:

• 200g flour
• 30 g cocoa powder
• 25g sugar
• 2 eggs
• 20g butter
• salt
• 1 spoon rum

         For stuffing :

• 1kg sweet cottage cheese
• 500g sugar
• milk
• vanilla
• cinnamon
• 100 g diced candied mixed
• 100 g plain chocolate into small pieces

For decoration: 

• reduced pistachio grit
• icing sugar

PREPARATION:

For the preparation of waffles you have to mixed in a bowl the flour,cocoa powder, the butter and eggs, add the rum at the end.Knead well until the mixture will not be homogeneous, then wrap it in plastic wrap and let it rest for half an hour. Then roll out the dough and cut into squares of about 10 cm per side,the wrap the squares into special metal tubes and fry in plenty of olive oil. Let it dry and after than take the special metal tubes.
For the stuffing, beat the sweet cottage cheese and sugar with the fork, stretch it with a can of milk and flavoring with cinnamon. Sieve and stir in the diced candied fruit and the pieces of chocolate. The stuffed pasta shells and sprinkle the out parts with chopped pistachio . Sprinkle externally with icing sugar.

Soup chocolate

For : 4 persons
Difficulty : low




INGREDIENTS:

• 8yolks
• 270g sugar
• 1 l milk
• 200 ml fresh cream
• 300g dark chocolate of 70%
• 300 g puffed rice
• saffron

  PREPARATION:

  Melt in a double boil the dark chocolate with 100 g of fresh cream. In a mixer whip the yolk and the sugar, In part, united in a pot the milk with 100g of fresh cream and saffron, and bring it to boil.Mixed the hot milk to the egg yolks sugary and put it back to the fire, bringing the mixture to a temperature of 70/80 °C. Stir in a ice cream maker.

In a flat bottom put the hot chocolate and lie down on a saffron ice  cream spoon, sprinkle with crisped rice.

Panna cotta

For : 10 persons
Difficulty: medium

                                                          

 INGREDIENTS:

• 1 l of fresh cream
• 200 ml of milk 
• 200g of sugar
• 4 sheet of gelatin
• 2 vanilla pods

 PREPARATION:

       Soack the sheet of gelatin in cold water for 10 min. Caramelized a large mold or smaller molds by cooking 100 gr granulated sugar. Put the panna , the milk and the rest of sugra in a saucepan  over medium heat,stirring and bringing almost to boil;add the vanilla and squeezed gelatin from the water. Put the crem into the mold or mold well caramelized. Let it coll in the fridge for a few hours before serving. To unmold, pass a moment the mold on the flamme making pour the caramelized sugar on the pudding.

Bonet

For : 10 persons

Difficulty : medium

INGREDIENTS :

• 500 ml milk
• 300 g granulated sugar
• 120 g macaroons
• 70 g cocoa powder
• 3 eggs
• 1 yolk
• 3 g of rum 

For the caramel :

• 300 g granulated sugar 
• 100 ml water

PREPARATION :

      Put into a casserole the sugar and water on medium heat ed let it until has a brown color, after that put the caramel in the shape you want and let it cool.
    The egg goes in the pie dish whit the granulated sugar and mixed until the sugar is dissolved. After that you add the ccoca powder and mix it very good, then add the crumbled macaroons and rum. Put in the milk, but not before it is heated, stirring constantly with the aid of a wip. You can put the mixture into the molds in caramel made before.
Put the molds into a griddle containing hot water and baked it in water bath at 150°C for 40-50 min.

Chestnuts spoon

For: 4 persone 

Difficult: mediu 

Preparation : 25 MIN

INGREDIENTS :

• 600 g chestnuts
• 150 g dark chocolate chopped
• 120 g butter
• 120 g sugar 
• a bit of sale

PREPARATION :
   
   
   Boiling the chesstnuts in salted water.When they are boiled you have to grind it.
Melt the chocolate and mixed with the chestnuts , still wormed, putting the sugar and butter.
Knead the dought ling and well.Grease and line a rectangular mold of wax paper,spill the compost  and cover it whit wax papper.Put it in the fridge for at lest 4 hours.After you can cut it in the shape you want (heart ,flowers ,square).Serve whit the cream separately