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.

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.

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.

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.

Pandoro and hazelnut tart

For: 6 persons
Difficulty: low

INGREDIENTS:
for the pasta:

• 300 g flour
• 170 g butter
• 150 g sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 yolk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla

for the stuffing:

• 180g Pandoro
• 125 g chocolate
• 60 ml fresh cream

PREPARATION:

Mix all the ingredients for the pasta until you get a homogeneous mixture.Wrap in plastic wrap and let it rest in the refrigerator for at least 40 min.Meanwhile buttered and flour a round pan and heat the oven for 170 degrees.Roll out the pastry ,cover the pan with it and stick the dough with a fork. Place a sheet of baking paper clipped round the dough and fill it with dried beans so as not to infiate the pastry.Bake it for 15-20 min : the dough will have to be cooked but not too dry.Melt the chocolate ,crumble the Pandoro and whip the fresh cream and stir everything.Fill the base of pastry with this compound and slice it .

Chocolate and pears delight

For: 4 persons
Difficulty : medium



INGREDIENTS:

 for the pastry:

• 165 g flour
• 125 g butter
• 30 g sugat
• 30 g almonds

 

for the stuffing:

• 4-5 pears
• 90 g butter
• 45 g cocoa powder 
• 200 g brown sugar
• 45 g flour
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract

 for decoration:

• icing sugar

PREPARATION:

Pour into a bowl the flour, the sugar, the chopped almonds, 3-4 tablespoons of water and the butter and knead until the mixture is very crumbly.Wrap it in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 30 min. Roll out the pastry, lined a baking pan and let rest in the refrigerator.

Peel the pear,remove the seeds and cut them into 4 pieces,Prick the dough with a fork and sprinkle with sugar.Put on the pears and bake it for 15 min at 180°C.  Meanwhile melt the butter and the cocoa mixing well.Mounted the egg and the brown sugar , add the butter and cocoa and sift over the flour. Stir everything and  add the vanilla extract.Pour it on the pears and bake it for anther 15 min.Leave to cool and sprinkle the cake with icing sugar 

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.