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Chocolate Amaretti Cake with Pears

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Monday was my husband’s birthday and he asked me for a cake with chocolate and pears. I went through my mom’s recipes and I found this delicious recipe I had forgotten about. It’s quite easy but the result is really sophisticated (thanks to the amaretti flavor) and just amazing! it gets even better after […]

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Magic Flan Cake with Blueberries and Lemon

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 I took this recipe from a french website called Chic Chic Chocolat, really a great source of inspiration. This dessert “Le Gâteau Magique aux Myrtilles et au Citron”  is incredible! It’s deliciously light, the blueberries are juicy and the cake looks so cool with 3 different layers …  take advantage of the blueberries still in season […]

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Easter Dove Bread – Colomba Pasquale

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Colomba pasquale  or colomba di Pasqua  (“Easter Dove” in English) is an Italian traditional Easter cake, the counterpart of the two well-known Italian Christmas desserts, panettone and pandoro. The dough for the colomba is made in a similar manner to panettone, with flour, eggs, sugar, natural yeast and butter; unlike […]

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Quick Tart Crust with Nutella

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An irresistible tart for the little ones and for the big ones! Tart with Nutella 🙂 By using the food processor it really takes a few minutes to make. Decoration takes too long? cover the  nutella filling with some quick decorations by using a cookie cutter.

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Mrs. Julia Child's Fruit Cake (Sticky Cake)

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This is the perfect cake for all dry fruit and nut lovers. If you travelled to Tuscany you might have tasted a slice of “Panforte”, the delicious spicy bread. I didn’t know it was possible to recreate the flavor of that Tuscany speciality till, last X-mas, I received a delicious fruit cake […]

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Banana Bread with Chocolate Chunks

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This recipe was given to me by my friend Andrea Elkrief, who previously received it  from  Mrs. Roberta Esposito back in 1975. The recipe is still very popular, the best I ever tried so far.   It’s very rich, so eat in moderation. photos by Coco Zordan