If you have been in Hungary for sure you have seen this very good sweet 🙂 It’s everywhere, it’s definitely one of the most common pastries here, and if it’s well done it’s really good, and it has nothing to envy to a croissant 🙂 actually there are 2 types of csiga: the one with…
Category: Desserts/Sweets
Crostata con Ricotta di Bufala e Cioccolato – Crostata with Buffalo Ricotta and Chocolate
This is one of the best crostata I ever made 🙂 you will be surprised of the flavors and the intensity of the aromas. I have recently discovered that here in Hungary there is a farm run by Italians that produces very good buffalo mozzarella and also fresh buffalo ricotta, so when I found their…
How to Make the Perfect Hot Chocolate :)
Why to make a post about hot chocolate? Yes, it’s a good question, in effect it’s supposed to be a quite easy thing, but if I look around there are really few places making a real good hot chocolate (I repeat: hot chocolate, not simply milk with cocoa), too many places are making unpleasant “hot…
Schwarzplententorte – Buckwheat Cake with Jam
This is a traditional “mountain cake” recipe typical of Südtirol, the northern area of Trentino Alto Adige region, in Italy. “Schwarzplententorte” is the name used in the German speaking villages (schwarzplentenmehl means buckwheat in the local German dialects, other German names for this flour are buchweizenmehl or hadnmehl), but in the villages where people speak…
Crostata di Ricotta e Visciole – Crostata With Ricotta and Morello/Sour Cherries
I think I already said that Crostata is probably my favorite cake, and this is a crostata with a plus 🙂 It’s a recipe typical of the city of Rome, and more precisely of the Jewish ghetto, and even more precisely it seems (it is said) it has been first created by the very old…
Stroscia of Pietrabruna
This is one of the best cakes I ever did 🙂 I really love it and it’s so simple, but the flavor explodes in your mouth and stays for so long! It is also one of the countless old traditional regional recipes of Italy which are “traditionally vegan” 🙂 It was, at the time, a…
“Casatella Terracinese” – Crostata with Ricotta, Coffee and Anise Liqueur
Ricotta is an ingredient that you can find in many cake recipes especially in central-southern Italy, and many traditional Easter cakes have it. The most famous of them is probably the Pastiera, typical of Naples. This cake is also an Easter cake, and it’s typical of the town of Terracina (from which it takes its name),…
Castagnaccio – Traditional Italian Chestnut Flour Cake
Autumn means chestnuts, and in Italy there is a very particular and interesting traditional cake made with chestnut flour: the Castagnaccio. More precisely is a cake typical of the regions Tuscany, Liguria, Emilia-Romagna, Piedmont and Lazio, but it’s also made on Corsica island. We call it cake but it’s not really matching the common idea…
Mákos Guba – Hungarian Poppy Seed Bread Pudding, with Vanilla Custard
This is an easy Hungarian dessert, to prepare fresh at the moment you need and to enjoy warm (but even when cooled down it’s good too) 🙂 and this time it was my wife to cook this recipe 🙂 Till I lived in Italy I never used poppy seeds, but here in Hungary is…
Biscotti di Prato – a.k.a. Cantuccini**
I’m sure that many of you heard about these famous Tuscan biscuits 🙂 and probably most of you heard about the word “Cantuccini” more often than “biscotti di Prato”. **Actually the title it’s not completely right because they are not exactly the same, and here I would like to talk a bit about their history…
Pancakes
More precisely American/Canadian pancakes, because everywhere in the world there are various types of pancakes 🙂 These are the ones which are often prepared in USA or Canada for breakfast, where they are usually topped with maple syrup (better if the natural real maple syrup than the artificial ones), honey or chocolate and served with fruit,…
Torta di Mele – Apple Cake
I think almost everyone have an apple cake recipe, and if they are made with good quality ingredients they are all good 🙂 the apple cakes are those cakes that make us think to the “grandmother cakes”, they are probably the more “homey” of the cakes and they are usually quite easy to make. And…
Polenta & Baccalá 