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.

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.

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.

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.

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