Yogurt cake

For : 6 persons
Difficulty: medium

INGREDIENTS:

• 300 g flour
• 4 eggs
• 400 g apricots
• 250 ml yogurt
• 200g sugar
• 150g butter
• 50 g almonds
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 lemon

PREPARATION:

Cut the apricots into slices.Mounted in a bowl the soft butter with the sugar and the lemon zest until you obtain a cream. 

Add the egg yolks and the flour, that you mixed it before with the baking powder and the baking soda,  the yogurt and the egg whites.Pour the mixture into a 24 cm bowl ,adding over the apricots pressing them into the dough and bake it for 45 min at 180 degrees.

Distribute over the almond and bake it for another 5 min. 

Let it to cool and serve it with icing sugar.

Tart with pistachios

For : 6 persons
Difficulty: low

INGREDIENTS:

• 250 G pastry dough
• 1 kg apricots
• 120g flour
• 75 g butter
• 200g sugar
• 2 tablespoons chopped pistachios

PREPARATION:

Cut the apricots into slices and put them in a bowl with 100g of sugar, stir it and let to rest for 30 min. Put the flour in a bowl with the remaining sugar, the pistachios and the soft butter, and with the tip of your fingers work the mixture until you get the crumbs.

Roll the dough and use it to line a bowl ( 24 cm ) and princk it with a fork.Pour the drained apricots and above the dough crumbs.Bake it for 35-40 min at 180 degrees.

Let it to cool before serving,

Yogurt cream and mango

For: 4 persons
Difficulty: low

INGREDIENTS:

• 400G creamy yogurt
• 4 ripe mangoes
• 200 ml fresh cream
• 150g sugar
• vanilla

PREPARATION:

Cut the mangoes into pieces and blend it with the sugar and vanilla, until you obtain a cream. Add the yogurt and the fresh cream, that you mounted in abowl whit an electric mixer.

Let it to rest a couple of hours before serving.

Raspberry mousse

For: 4 persons
Difficulty: low

INGREDIENTS:

• 400 g raspberry
• 150g sugar
• 3 egg whites
• 300 ml fresh cream
• icing sugar

PREPARATION:

Whisk 300 g of raspberry with sugar until you obtain a smooth puree.

Mounted in a bowl with an electric mixer the egg whites until they become frothy and add the puree, stirring from bottom to top. Whip the fresh cream and add the mixture obtained before. Put everything in 4 glasses and let it in the fridge for 2 hours. 

Decorate with the remaining raspberry.

Summer plumcake

For :8 persons
Difficulty :low

INGREDIENTS:

• 250g flour
• 250g butter
• 4 eggs
• 500 g apricots
• 270 g icing sugar
• 1 teaspoon cocoa powder
• 1 teaspoon baking powder

PREPARATION:

Divide the apricots in hakf and remove the crux, cut them into pieces and sprinkle 2 tablespoons of flour.Mix the butter with the sugar, adding the eggs , the remaining flour,the cocoa powder and baking powder.Pour half into a mold, adding the cuted apricots and on the pour the remaining mixture.Bake for  50min at 180 degrees.

Let it to cool and dust it with icing sugar.

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.

Cake filled with eggnog and strawberries

For: 6 persons
Difficulty: medium

INGREDIENTS:

• 600 g "bread of angels"

for the eggnog:

• 4 yolks
• 100g sugar
• 10g flour
• 450 ml white wine
• 400ml whipping cream
• 30g cocoa powder
• 300g strawberries
• 1 banana
• 1/2 lemon(just the juice)
• 50g icing sugar

PREPARATION:

For the "bread of angels" you nedd 10 egss whites mixed with 200 g icing sugar: when the compound become foamy add a teaspoon of baking powder and 120 g flour little at the time. At the end add vanilla essence.

Pour the mixture into a round mold and bake for 60min at 165 degrees.

For the eggnog: whip the 4 egg yolks with the sugar in a bowl for 5 min.After that add the flour a little at a time and the white wine and cook in a double boiler for 15 min. Remove from the heat and let it cool, stirring constantly.

Mounted in another bowl the whipping cream and combined with the cream little at a time from the bottom upwards.Take 1/3 from the compound and mix it with the cocoa powder.

Cut into slices the strawberries and the banana on which pour the lemone juice to keep it blacked.

Cut into 3 -4  shares the "bread of angels" . Place the base on the plate and spread 1/2 of eggnog dabbimg the strawberries slices , place the 2 shares and spread the chocolate cream on which put the banana slices: add the 3 shares spreding the other half of eggnog cream and the strawberries slices. Finally add the last part of "bread of angels"and cover with icing sugar and with slices of banana and strawberry

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Cake with chocolate figs and cedar with white chocolate sauce

For: 8 persons
Difficulty: medium

INGREDIENTS:
for the cake:

• 130g butter
• 230g sugar
• 2 eggs
• 185 g flour
• 40 g cocoa powder
• 185 ml fresh milk
• 120g dried figs
• 60g candied citron
• 1 teaspoon of baking powder

for the sauce:

• 100g white chocolate
• 50 ml fresh cream
• nutmeg

PREPARATION:

Mount 120g soft butter and the sugar, add the eggs one at the time, the flour, baking powder, cocoa powder and the milk until you get a smooth, soft dough.Cut the figs and the candied citron and put them in the compound . 

In a buttered mold pour the cake and bake it for 45 min at 180 degrees.Meanwhile , heat the fresh cream and remove from the heat, add the white chocolate and slam to  homogenize.

Unmold the cake , let it cool and cut it into slices. 

Serve with the white chocolate sauce .

Brownie cheesecake with raspberry sauce

For: 6 persons
Difficulty: low

INGREDIENTS:
for the brownie:

• 3eggs
• 190 g sugar
• 125 g dark chocolate
• 125g butter
• 150g flour
• vanilla

for the cheescake:

• 200g robiola ( is an Italian soft-ripened cheese)
• 150g ricotta cheese
• 75g fresh cream
• 20g greek yogurt
• 100g sugar
• vanilla
• 1/4 teaspoon flour
• 1 untreated lemon

for the raspberry sauce:

• 200g raspberry
• 100g icing sugar
• 1 lemon

PREPARATION:

Separately in a double boiler, melt the dark chocolate and the butter.Whisk the eggs and sugar, adding the choccolate ,the butter ,the flour and the vanilla.Line a square baking pan with parchment paper, pour the mixture and level the surface.

Mix all the ingredients for the  cheescake with grated lemon rind and the vanilla.Pour the cream gently on the brownie without the 2 being mixed. Bake it for 20-25 min at 180degrees.

Blend the raspberry, incorporate the sugar and the filtered juice of lemon.

Serve the cold sweet accompanying it with the sauce.

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.

Mini diplomatic chocolate

For : 6 persons
Difficulty: medium

INGREDIENTS:
 for the diplomatic:

• 500g sponge cake
• 200g milk chocolate
• 180g dark chocolate
• 240g sugar
• 300 ml fresh cream
• 100 ml rum
• 2eggs
• 2 yolks
• 4 sheets of gelatin

for decoration:

• sugar
• milk chocolate

PREPARATION:

In 2 separate pots in a double boiler, melt the milk chocolate and the dark chocolate.In a bowl whisk the eggs and the egg yolks with sugar until the mixture is light and fluffy.Make soften the gelatin in cold water and after a few minutes squeeze it and divide it between the 2 chocolates melted before. Add to both chocolate , eggs and sugar and the previously whipped cream and gently stir the 2 creams.From the sponge cake obtain long strips and rectangular and moisten with a rum and a bit of water.Spread on a first layer of sponge the cream, cover with the sponge and then roll out the other cream and finish with the sponge cake.Let rest in the refrigerator for 2 hours and serve the cake cut into squares. Decorate with sugar and with chocolate curls.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.