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Ideas and recipes for Christmas sweets – Italian Cuisine

Not just pandoro and panettone: discover our recipes to prepare traditional and not Christmas sweets. To please those who prefer fresh or spoon desserts

After i rich Feast meals not everyone wants panettone and pandoro, but would prefer a fresh and creamy sweet, maybe spooned and chocolatey. Panic? No fear: we have collected recipes from Christmas sweets from the fridge (but not only) that will please everyone, even those who do not renounce traditions.

Traditional Christmas sweets from the fridge

There is no need to move away from the classics if you don't want to turn on the oven. The Mont Blanc, a riot of browns and cream, is often associated with the Festivals, given its richness. But there is also the blancmange – a pudding based on almond milk widespread in Sicily, Sardinia and Valle d'Aosta – which, perhaps, could be enrich with pistachios and chopped dark chocolate on the surface so as not to disfigure on the Christmas table.
The tiramisu, which is not exactly Christmas, usually satisfies everyone anyway and to give it a Christmas touch you could prepare it in single-portion cups with slices of pandoro or panettone instead of ladyfingers. And how not to mention, among the Christmas sweets from the fridge, the Bonet, a Piedmontese pudding made with cocoa and macaroons, and it eggnog?

No fridge or oven

In addition to Christmas sweets from the fridge, there are a number of delicacies that do not include the use of the oven, but neither of the fridge: le Apulian carteddate he Neapolitan struffoli they are fried sweetness. And then there is the whole vast world of gods nougats and gods crunchy – almond or sesame – le candied orange peel, dates and dried figs stuffed with walnuts and mascarpone.

Cold sweets for Christmas

Christmas sweets from the fridge to amaze

If your purpose is, instead of surprising the diners, with a Christmas menu but different from the usual why not bring to the table Orange baskets with sorbet for dessert: add a pinch of ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves to give a Christmas scent. Also an semifreddo – maybe with chestnuts with whiskey sauce – it will delight the palate of your guests, not making them feel the lack of panettone & co. For last-minute guests prepare one mousse in single-portion glasses that will cool while you dine: do the custard with your recipe of the heart, that of the grandmother who never fails and cook it until it is very thick. Add us chopped nougat finely with a mixer and a goccino of the liqueur you have at home. Fill the glasses with this rich cream, perhaps helping yourself with a pastry bag for a cleaner result and refrigerate. At the time of serving, garnish with melted dark chocolate, chopped nougat and maybe some toasted panettone or crumbled Christmas biscuit.
And who does not renounce chocolate? The chocolate salami is always good, even in the veg version to be suitable for everyone and made with Christmas cookies instead of the classic dry biscuits. Now all that remains is to choose which Christmas sweets for the fridge to prepare.

Christmas sweets

Halloween sweets, three tips to prepare them with the children – Italian Cuisine

Do you want to make sweets, to give as gifts or to eat for Halloween? Follow the advice of our pastry chef of La Suola de La Cucina Italiana

The party of Halloween is now at the door; you can't be caught unprepared if someone rings at the door saying "Trick or treat?". Here you can find simple and quick ideas for Halloween sweets to prepare with the children, three easy recipes and also fun.

Don't miss the advice of pastry chefs from The School of Italian Cuisine, to prepare Halloween sweets for this special party.

Greedy "Pumpkins"

To make small delicious "pumpkins", you can take some tangerines and dig the inner part, removing the pulp; use a teaspoon to help you. Once the slices are removed, dry the inside with a sheet of absorbent paper and with a black marker draw the eyes and the mouth of a scary Halloween pumpkin.
Then fill the mandarins with a pudding to the chocolate. The scenic effect is assured: the dark color of the pudding and the orange of the mandarin will create a beautiful contrast. Here is a quick recipe!

Ingredients:
200 ml Milk
50 lt Fresh cream
50 g Milk chocolate
2 g Fish paste
25 g Egg yolk
85 g Whole eggs
100 g Sugar
1 g Salt
Orange peel

Method:
Bring the cream and milk to the boil. Combine the grated orange zest, chocolate and isinglass, previously soaked and squeezed. In a bowl beat the eggs with the sugar and salt. Combine the two compounds and pour everything into the baking molds. Cook at 150 ° C in a water bath for about 50 minutes. Then let it cool and serve.

Witch's Fingers

To make the horrible fingers of the witch, roll out the pastry, creating a sausage. Divide it, then, into pieces about 8 centimeters long; to make them more like fingers, place three small cuts on the surface and place one end on one almond. Cook i cookies in the oven and serve them next to a jar of jam of berries, to simulate blood. Do you want to make jam at home? Follow this recipe!

Ingredients:
– 500 g Forest fruits
– 100 g Sugar
– 6 g Pectin powder
– 1 teaspoon of lemon juice

Method:
Cook the berries together with the pectin and sugar; count 6 minutes from when it reaches a boil. When they are completely wilted, add the lemon juice and mix.

Sweet ghosts

To make some funny ghosts, take some meringues dried with the classic sprig shape; let it melt chocolate in a bain-marie or directly in the microwave oven and draw the eyes and the mouth of ghosts. Alternatively, you can use a food marker. Your Halloween treats will be good and scary at the same time!
Don't you know how to make meringues properly? Here is the recipe!

Ingredients:
– 200 g Egg whites
– 400 g Sugar

Method:
Pour the egg whites into the planetary tank; mount them, making them foam, and add the sugar several times. Continue to whisk until you get a firm meringue. Insert the mixture into a pastry bag with the spout of at least 1 cm. On a baking sheet make many small tufts, respecting the classic cone shape of the meringues. Bake in a static oven at 90 ° C for at least 2 hours / 2 hours and a half based on the size of the meringues. Allow to cool and decorate to taste.

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Texts by Caterina Limido

Halloween sweets: 10 monstrous ideas – Italian Cuisine

Are you organizing a party for October 31 and do you need any advice to set up the treat-treat buffet? Here are our good proposals for fear!

Monstrous at the right point, but also very sweet: they are the desserts that cannot be missing on your table in the scariest night of the year.
Biscuits, cakes or desserts. Prepare the dessert of your choice and then make it a bit of a treat. Give vent to the your creativity using lots of decorations.
If you are proficient with the sugar paste made ghosts, bones, pumpkins, spiders and witches. But if the dexterity is not your forte then buy ready-made decorations and add them to your cake decorated with cream or simple cupcakes.

Halloween, not just pumpkin

If you don't like pumpkin, you don't have to use it.
You bet everything on the chocolate that is black, a scary color, and then play with something orange, which is the typical color of Halloween.
With just two ingredients, egg whites and sugar, you can also have fun making meringues that look like ghosts. You can do it with the whipped Cream if you don't feel like turning on the oven. With a pastry bag place it on small muffins and complete with two drops of chocolate to draw the eyes.
With the soft licoriceFinally, you can create scary spiders.
Get help from children who have imagination to sell!

Browse the tutorial to find out 10 sweet ideas to be carried out easily at home.