Southern Italian Desserts


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An authentic guide to the festive, mouthwatering sweets of Southern Italy, including regional specialties that are virtually unknown in the US, as well as variations on more popular desserts such as cannoli, biscotti, and gelato. As a follow-up to her acclaimed My Calabria, Rosetta Costantino collects 75 favorite desserts from her Southern Italian homeland, including the regions of Basilicata, Calabria, Campania, Puglia, and Sicily. These areas have a history of rich traditions and tasty, beautiful desserts, many of them tied to holidays and festivals. For example, in the Cosenza region of Calabria, Christmas means plates piled with grispelle (warm fritters drizzled with local honey) and pitta 'mpigliata (pastries filled with walnuts, raisins, and cinnamon). For the feast of Carnevale, Southern Italians celebrate with bugie ("liars"), sweet fried dough dusted in powdered sugar, meant to tattle on those who sneak off with them by leaving a wispy trail of sugar. With fail-proof recipes and information on the desserts' cultural origins and context, Costantino illuminates the previously unexplored confectionary traditions of this enchanting region.




Authentic Italian Desserts


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Bring Home a Taste of Italy with Delectable Desserts That Are Molto Deliziosi Rosemary Molloy, creator of the blog An Italian in My Kitchen, takes you on a delicious and decadent culinary journey through the cities and countryside of Italy. Make incredible classics like biscotti and tiramisu, as well as bundt cakes you can dip in your morning coffee—a staple in Italy—moist ricotta cake, or Italian butter cookies that melt in your mouth. Whether you’re serving a crowd or simply satisfying your own sweet tooth, Rosemary brings the rustic and diverse baking traditions of Italy into your home kitchen. And with recipes that are simple to make and require little prep time, indulging in a true Italian baking experience is easier than ever.




The Craft of Baking


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James Beard Award—winner Karen DeMasco, who first came to national attention as the pastry chef of Tom Colicchio’s Craft, Craftbar, and ’wichcraft restaurants from 2001 to 2008, approaches the art of baking in a unique way. Building on the savory cooking philosophy of using seasonal ingredients to create dishes with pure flavors, Karen makes acclaimed desserts that are both simple and elegant. Now, she shares her secrets and techniques in her first cookbook, The Craft of Baking, designed to help home bakers think imaginatively in order to expand their repertoires with new and fresh combinations. Using the bounty of the seasons as inspiration and Karen’s clear instructions, both beginners and experienced bakers will find it easy to let their creativity take the reins. Learn how to make Karen’s celebrated sweets, such as Apple Fritters with Caramel Ice Cream and Apple Caramel Sauce, White Chocolate Cupcakes with White Chocolate Cream Cheese Buttercream, and Raised Cinnamon-Sugar Doughnuts. Then check out the tips on "varying your craft" to transform Grandma Rankin’s Cashew Brittle into Pumpkin Seed Brittle and to alter a cobbler recipe to make Rhubarb Rose Cobbler in the spring or Mixed Berry Cobbler in the summer, for example. Karen’s suggestions for "combining your craft"–such as serving Almond Pound Cake with Apricot Compote and Lillet Sabayon–reveal how easy it is to take desserts to the next level. Karen’s ingenuity is boundless. All types of sweets, from muffins and scones to pies and cakes to ice creams and custards, are her mediums for exploring flavors. With Karen’s simple techniques, unique flavor combinations, and inventive ideas, The Craft of Baking will change the way you think about baking and equip any home cook with the skills and creativity to create amazing, one-of-a-kind desserts.




My Calabria: Rustic Family Cooking from Italy's Undiscovered South


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The first cookbook from this little-known region of Italy celebrates the richness of the region's landscape and the allure of its cuisine, featuring recipes for easily accessible, fresh-from-the-garden Italian food from a Calabrian native.




Italian Desserts & Pastries


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"Delicious recipes for 100 authentic sweets"--Cover.




Great Italian Desserts


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Italian Desserts


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Showing that there is much variety to see and taste at the end of a good Italian meal, this Italian dessert cookbook is intended for those trying to master the art of Italian dessert-making.




Grace's Sweet Life


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Collects recipes for Italian desserts and pastry, including chocolate and cherry cake, Italian peach cookies, and custard tarts.




Eataly: All About Dolci


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From the most trusted purveyor of Italian delicacies worldwide, this is an indispensable guide to Italian sweets and desserts and a delectable exploration of la dolce vita. Every cook knows that any great dinner party is only as good as its sweet ending, even multicourse Italian feasts. All About Dolci, from the pastry chefs at Eataly, is an enticing presentation from biscotti to gelati, torte, and classic pasticceria, with more than fifty recipes that inspire the perfect flourish to any Italian meal. The book takes readers through the history and tradition behind biscotti, with recipes including cantucci, baci di dama, and amaretti; holiday recipes such as panettone, pandoro, and struffoli; the classic tradition of Italian mini-pastries, piccola pasticerria, featuring rum baba, meringa, and cannoli; and all things gelati, including granita, sorbetto, and affogato, among many others. All About Dolci is, like Eataly itself, a one-stop source for classic Italian dessert traditions and recipes.




Italian Cooking School: Desserts


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75 fail-proof recipes for delicious desserts from the world's most trusted and bestselling Italian cookbook series. Making desserts at home has never been easier! The Silver Spoon Italian Cooking School: Desserts teaches everything you need to know about making Amaretti Biscuits to a Strawberry Custard Tart to a Chocolate and Hazelnut Cake. With the illustrated step-by-step instructions, readers learn to make cookies and cakes, then advancing to pies and tarts and so many more. Readers build their cooking repertoire as they progress through the books, building confidence with simple recipes at the start and advancing to more challenging dishes. The Silver Spoon Italian Cooking School series is designed for modern cooks to prepare healthy, delicious, and authentic recipes in their own home. Ideal for cooking novices, each book in the series features illustrated instructions for basic techniques and a collection of 75 Italian recipes to keep readers inspired. The Silver Spoon is the most influential and bestselling Italian cookbook of the last 50 years. From the publisher of The Silver Spoon, the most influential and bestselling Italian cookbook of the last 50 years.