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Ideas and recipes for the vegetarian Christmas menu – Italian Cuisine

Ideas and recipes for the vegetarian Christmas menu


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Icing for panettone: 3 good ideas – Italian Cuisine

Icing for panettone: 3 good ideas


The recipe of almond icing, Iginio Massari amaretto and crispy, with dark chocolate. With our icing for panettone this Christmas will be very sweet!

You have overcome the dilemma that divided you and your guests in the choice between panettone or pandoro and you are oriented on the choice of the first, ready to endure those who loosen it eliminating the precious candied fruit and who will lose the logic of proportions drowning in mascarpone cream. But before imagining a scenario identical to that experienced last Christmas, we try to consider an element that could give a new allure to the classic dessert: the icing for panettone.

Or a thin cover to be poured on the crust able to multiply the taste, the effect and the gluttony of the course that will close the lunch. The keyword in this case is sweetness, since one of the basic ingredients with which we will prepare it is sugar.

The almond glaze

This icing is perhaps the most classic and we have met it on different traditional desserts. To have a perfect result, it should be poured on panettone when it is still cooking, but we can be content with a more crafted effect using it to make the panettone we bought even more special.
To prepare it, mix well 30 g of egg whites with 50 g of brown sugar. When they are amalgamated, we combine 80 g of peeled and chopped almonds and 20 g of almond flour.
At this point, we spread the icing on the panettone and decorah it with whole almonds. Bake at 180 degrees for ten minutes and let it cool before serving.

Iginio Massari's icing for panettone

One of the characteristics of the panettone of the famous pastry chef focuses all on sweet-bitter contrast. What is called amaretto glaze, is produced with a mixture based on armelline, or the seeds present inside the apricot pits.
Unlike the previous one, this must necessarily form a crust on the cake and therefore needs to be put into cooking with the dough. Found the traditional recipe in our tutorial: How to prepare the panettone at home and then, the icing of Iginio Massari with which to sprinkle before baking.

For the amaretto glaze, grind 75 g of raw sweet almonds, 50 g of hazelnuts, 25 g of armellines, 300 g of sugar, 10 g of cocoa, 10 g of corn flour and 10 g of starch in a mixer. Add 50 g of egg white and work until glaze is neither too hard nor excessively liquid. Pour it on panettone prepared following our tutorial and follow the cooking times indicated.

The glaze without almonds, dark chocolate

The secret of the icing for panettone al dark chocolate is temper it in the right way. Chop 300 g and put two thirds in a saucepan and dissolve in a bain-marie. As soon as it is melted, turn it upside down on a marble surface and spread it out with a spatula until it cools. Put it back in the container before, add the remaining chocolate and do it melt in a bain-marie. Repeat the spatula operation until the chocolate is cold. Let it melt again. Now the icing is ready to be poured and spatulated on the panettone which then put on a grill to cool.

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Crêpes cake: recipe, ideas and advice – Italian Cuisine

Crêpes cake: recipe, ideas and advice


A dessert much less complicated than it seems! You just have to have the patience to cook many crêpes, then you just have to choose how to fill the layers!

There Crepes Pie it's a dessert that's easy to prepare even if it requires a little bit of it patience. It is indeed a cake made with many layers of crêpes interspersed with a creamy filling that can be prepared with different ingredients.
The crêpes are the most important preparation of this cake and once placed on top of each other they will create a very nice effect to see, especially after the cut. Let's start now, therefore, from the basic preparation.

How to do the Crepes

First mix 250 g of 00 flour with 60 g of sugar.
The flour must be well sifted.
Then add a pinch of salt, vanilla in seeds or in extract and of the orange peel or lemon.
Pour 500 ml of whole milk and mix with a hand whisk.
Except bang three eggs and then add them to the mixture.
Cook the crêpes in one crepeera very hot and slightly buttered or in a non-stick pan.
With this dose you should get 15 crêpes of about 20 cm in diameter.
To have crêpes of the same size used as a dispenser a ladle not too big always filling it with the same amount of batter and, once poured the mixture into the pan, distribute it evenly.

How to store them Crepes

You can also prepare them the day before to bring you a little further with work.
To keep them soft and humid at the right point, you simply have to stack them on top of each other when they are still warm and cover them with transparent film.
They will be ready for use when you need them and in the same way you can also freeze.
To defrost them, take them out of the freezer a few hours before using them.

How to fill the cake Crepes

Once you have made the crepes you just have to decide how to fill the cake.
We suggest a classic custard with vanilla or chocolate or one tiramisu cream with eggs and mascarpone.
If you are lazy you can also simply mix cream of hazelnuts and mascarpone or spreadable cheese, whipped cream and powdered sugar and you will get super delicious fillings that will please children too.
Do you prefer something very light and fresh? Try then to simply use the jam.
We suggest a bitter orange jam that is not too cloying and goes very well with the taste of crêpes.
A perfect idea for an after-dinner, but also for a snack.

How to compose the crêpes cake

Once you have chosen the filling, how do you proceed?
Place the first crêpe directly on what will be the serving dish.
Spread one light cream layer starting from the center of the crêpes to gently get to cover it all without reaching the ends to prevent the stuffing from escaping.
If you want, add between one layer and another also of the fruit, coconut flour, dried fruit grains or chocolate chips and proceed in this way for other layers until the crêpes are finished.
Be careful not to abound either with the filling or with everything you add between one layer and the other because the distance between one cracks and the other must be minimal for a spectacular visual effect when cut.

How to decorate the crepes cake

If you have used jam you can simply sprinkle the cake with of icing sugar or decorate it with caramelized fruit.
Thinking of the filling of orange marmalade, for example, you can use slices of caramelized and perfumed orange at the Grand Marnier.
If you use, instead, a filling that is more creamy, sweet and greedy, opt for one rich decoration based on tufts of whipped cream or chocolate ganache.

Browse now the gallery to discover the many variations of the mille crêpes cake and choose your favorite!

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