English cup with fruits

For: 6 persons
Difficulty: medium

INGREDIENTS:

• 24 savoiardi biscuits
• 400g raspberry jam
• 300g cream
• 150g icing sugar
• 2 tablespoon hazelnuts
• 1 orange juice
• 1 small glass of orange liqueur
• 6 peaches in syrup
• 400 ml milk
• 100g sugar
• 4 yolks
• 40 g flour
• vanilla
• cocoa
• candied cherries

PREPARATION:

Boil the milk with the vanilla.Whip the egg yolks with the sugar, adding the flour at the end. Pout the milk with the vanilla and let thicken on flame.

Whip the cream with the icing sugar until it becomes firm , and let it in the firdge.Mix the orange juice with the liqueur and soak the biscuits. With a part of these  coated the walls and the bottom of a transparent cup;then alternating the layers with the jam, the cream, the slaces of peaches , the hazelnuts and the wet biscuits. At the end complete with a layer of whipped cream.Let it in the fridge for 2-3 hours and then add the candied cherries.

Parfait with strawberries

For :4 persons
Difficulty : low

INGREDIENTS:

• 500 g mascarpone cheese
• 100g savoiardi biscuits
• 50 g icing sugar
• 900 ml milk
• 6 g gelatin sheets
• vanilla
• 350g strawberries
• granulated sugar
• 1 lemon
• 2 tablespoons rum

PREPARATION:

Cut in half the straweberries and add lemon juice and granulated sugar.Put the gelatin sheests in cold water. Stir with the whisk the mascarpone cheese with the vanilla and the icing sugar. Squeeze the gelatin and add it to the milk, let it dissolve. Mix it with the mascarpone cream.

Place the strawberry juice in a bowl with rum and soak the sponge fingers.Arrange it in a cake tin , cover with the strawberries cut in half and the mascarpone cream. Let it in the fridge for 3 hours.

Vanilla pudding

For: 4 persons
Difficulty: low

INGREDIENTS:

• 1glass and half of milk
• 2 eggs
• 2  tablespoons of sugar
• liquid sweetener and vanilla

PREPARATION:

Beat the eggs with the liwuid sweetener until they become foamy.Stir with a wooden spoon and add the milk and a teaspoon of vanilla.Prepare liquid caramel with sugar (warmed with a few  drops of water or lemon)  and with this line a pudding mold and add the creme. Cook in a double boiler at 180 degrees for 1 hour.Let it cool and arrange on a plate.

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

Hazelnut praline

For: 4 persons
Difficulty: low

INGREDIENTS:

• 150g milk chocolate
• 2 tablespoons fresh cream
• 100 g peeled hazelnuts

PREPARATION:

Toast the hazelnuts in a frying pan,let it to cool and choopped the hazelnuts.Melt the chocolate in a double boiler.Add the hazelnuts and the fresh cream.Mix together and break down in a roasting pan and then cut them subsequently. Let it cool in the fridge and serve.

Trifle in dark cup

For : 4 persons
Difficulty: low


INGREDIENTS:
 for trifle:

• 300g sponge cake
• 4 tablespoons of Alchermes(or any type of liquor)
• 80g sugar
• 70 g dark chocolate

for the cream:

• 250 ml milk
• 2 yolks
• 60 g sugar
• 30 g flour
• 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract

PREPARATION:

Whip the yolks and the sugar until you obtain a soft cream, add the flour and the vanilla extract.Heat the milk in a bowl and pour it on the compound.Put the cream back  on the stove over low heat for at least 5 min.

Dissolve the sugar with 200 ml of water, add the liquor and let it to cool.Wet the sponge cake with the syrup.Melt the chocolate in a double boiler.Compose the trifle altering the cream, the sponge cake and the melted chocolate.Let it in the fridge for at least 2 h.

Cake with citrus fruits and milk chocolate

For : 6 persons
Difficulty: medium

INGREDIENTS
   for the cake:

• 150g milk chocolate
• 90 g almonds
• 60 g flour type "00"
• 1/2 teaspoon of baking powder 
• 1 lemon
• 1 orange
• 4eggs
• 125g sugar
• 2 spoon milk
• 20g butter                                                                                                    

                                             

 for decoration:

• 170 ml fresh cream
• icing sugar

PREPARATION:

Grease a mold and cover the bottom with parchment paper.Chop 100g chocolate with a tablespoon of grated citrus zest. Add the flour and the almonds and blend them briefly.Beat the eggs yolks and the sugar,and then add the previous mixture and the warm milk,Whip the eggs whites with a pinch of salt and stir everything with the aid of a spatula and making movements from bottom up.Add the baking powder and pour the mixture in the mold. Bake it for 45 min at 180°C. When the cake is cooled, cut it into 2 pieces.Melt the chocolate in a double boiler remained and spread the base of the cake.Stuffed with whipped cream and cover with the top of the cake,Let on the fridge for 20 min and add on top the icing sugar and chocolate flakes.

Sweet pumpkin

For: 4 persons
Difficulty: medium

INGREDIENTS:

• 600g pumpkin
• 1.5 l milk
• 50g butter
• 100g flour
• 80 g honey
• 2 eggs
• 80g sugar

PREPARATION:

 Place the pumpkin in a glass bowl and cover with plastic wrap and place in the microwave for 20 min until it is tender and it is possible to obtain a puree.Aside,melt the butter with the honey diluted in warm water and add the pumpkin puree.Stirring constantly, add the flour and cook until the mixture will not result dense.Let it to cool. Add the  eggs ( only the yorks) and whisk the egg white. Incoporated to the mixture gently the egg whites. In a saucepan over low heat, melt the sugar until it will reach a goldenn color,then pour it in a mold.Add the mixture into caramelized mold and bake in a moderate oven to 180 °C for 20-25 min. Cool it and overturned on the plate.

Donut

For: 10 persons
Difficulty: low

                                                               
INGREDIENTS:

• 1 kg flour
• 400 g sugar
• 4eggs
• 1 baking powder
• grated one lemon peel
• 300 g butter
• milk

PREPARATION:

Knead in a bowl the eggs and sugar, add  butter, the grated lemon peel and the flour gradually and finally the milk until you have a farly soft dough.Add the baking powder and mix well.

Grease a mold of the shape that you prefer,put the mixture and bake it at 200°C for 30min. When it will be golden color, remove from the oven and let to cool.

Almond cookies

For : 10 persons
Difficulty: medium

                                              
INGREDIENTS:

• 3eggs
• 400g sugar
• 250 g whole almonds
• 1 baking powder
• 400 g flour

PREPARATION:

Mix all the ingredients and formed a long stick of pasta.Put it over a plate covered with a sheet of baking paper and bake at 180 °C for 30 min. Cut from the many sweet biscuits that will put back in the over for 20 min at 180 °C to crisp.

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.

Cream of oranges

For : 4 persons

Difficulty : low
                                                    
                                                                 INGREDIENTS :

• 500 ml milk
• 30 g starch
• 4 yolk of eggs
• 100 g sugar
• 4 orange (juice and grated rind)
• a bit of  cinnamon

    DECORATION :

• 50 ml whipping cream
• orange peel

   PREPARATION :

     Into pie dish mixt whit a whip the yolk ,sugar and strach, after that you put the warmed milk and mix
ted it until it's all incorporated
Put the pie dish with all ingredients to boil . When the cream is thicken , close the fire and put the juice and grated rind.Wait until the cream is cooled.
Serve this fragrant orange cream in decorated cups with whipping cream and a slice of candied orange ,powdering cinnamon.

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.