Two More Simple Italian Dessert Recipes For You
Simple Italian dessert recipes – Who said that Italian cuisine is only pasta and pizza? There are lots of dessert recipes as well. Here are two exampled for you. Let’s start with Margherita sponge cake.
Margherita means Daisy in Italian and in spite of its simplicity, it has a long tradition in the peasant’s foods, and it was often prepared without butter, depending if the household could afford it or not.
Castagnole
Ingredients for four people.
100gr flour, sifted, plus extra for dusting
100gr potato flour, sifted
200gr butter, melted, plus extra, softened for greasing
200gr sugar
6 eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract
Whip the eggs with the sugar until smooth and foamy, then add the flours, mix again and add vanilla and butter. Mix well and prepare a round cake tin for the oven by greasing it (with butter) and dusting (with flour). Preheat the oven at 180ºC for 30 minutes, until golden on top. Let it cool in the tin before transferring it to a serving dish.
And this one is called Castagnole, a typical Carnival cake, but any time of the year is indeed appropriate.
3 eggs
200gr flour, sifted
80gr sugar
70gr lard
250ml water
Dilute the lard with water on a low heat, then add the flour and sugar. As soon as it’s incorporated, take off the stove, mix again and add the eggs, one at the time. Preheat the oven at 180ºC. Form balls the size of a golf ball, then lay them in a baking tray. Bake for 20-25 minutes then dust with icing sugar and serve.
If you want to know more about Italian desserts then let me introduce you to tiramisu, by far the most popular. Here’s a great tiramisu recipe, from the classic to the weirdest variation, and also a recipe to make lady fingers biscuits (one of the main ingredients of tiramisu) from scratch.
These are just a few of the great desserts in Italian cuisine. For other great culinary ideas, be sure to visit our Rival crock pot homepage and see how others are learning to live the slow-cookin’ lifestyle.
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