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Halloween sweets: the best recipes – Italian Cuisine

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Ready for Halloween? The famous Anglo-Saxon festival of Celtic origin, which roughly corresponds to our All Saints, is the perfect recurrence for venting creativity and demonstrating manual skills in the kitchen. Which occasion is indeed better for cooking delicious desserts from the original horror themed decorations?

If you are also looking for new ones recipes to surprise or terrorize your guests, Sale & Pepe has selected for you 10 best Halloween dessert recipes. Muffins, cakes, cupcakes, biscuits and frozen desserts designed to fascinate children and adults without stealing too much time or forcing you to hours and hours at the stove.

Try them all. The lovely ones little witches they are fanciful chocolate muffins decorated with ice cream balls in the face and chocolate cones as hats. The traditional pumpkin pie it is a simple autumn sweet to cook, especially if you follow our step by step recipe. The spectacular Loch Ness monster it will amuse the little diners, it is very easy to do and spectacular to bring to the table: in the lake formed by vanilla pudding colored by blue food coloring emerges the "monster" composed of slices of pineapple in syrup and pieces of marzipan.

Jokingly evocative is the chocolate cake, topped with amaretto bats, a decoration as effective as it is easy to make.

THE chocolate owls they are tasty cupcakes with a tender and hilarious thrilling decoration.
To make children eat fruit too, the recipe from is ideal candy apples, very easy to prepare, covered with chopped pistachios and hazelnuts.

THE muffin with chocolate spider web they have a heart of soft pumpkin and a delicious glaze of sugar: then with the chocolate in a bain-marie, put in a pastry bag, have fun drawing the cobwebs on the glazed surface.

Spiders, owls, mythological creatures, ghosts … you can play around with your imagination! You will discover that in reality they are all more than good!

Cjarsòns sweets: the real recipe for ravioli from Carnia – Italian Cuisine

In these typical sweet ravioli from Friuli, you can put raisins, cinnamon, dried figs … but also potatoes and onions! Here is the real recipe for making this "dessert" at home

The cjarsòns are the symbolic dish of Carnia: potato dough ravioli with ricotta filling kneaded with a very rich variety of ingredients: spices, dried fruit, sultanas, oriental aromas, aromatic herbs … they are made both sweet and savory and every family, every restaurant and every country has its own recipe. At Rivalpo, part of the municipality of Arta Terme, in the province of Udine, they make them like this, desserts.

Ingredients for 4 people

For the stuffing
200 g of potatoes
2 dried figs
1 pinch of dried mint in powder
1 small onion
50 g of sultanas
1 grated lemon rind
30 g of sugar
1 tablespoon of cinnamon powder
15 g of bitter cocoa
1 large grated carob
1 egg

For pasta
200 g of flour
1 knob of butter
1 glass of warm water
1 egg to brush
1 pinch of salt

For the seasoning
150 g of butter
150 g of smoked ricotta

Preparation

Prepare the dough by mixing the flour well with the warm water in which you have melted the butter and a pinch of salt. Let it rest for 20 minutes covered with a cloth.

To make the filling, fry the boiled and sieved potatoes in a casserole with the minced mint, figs and sultanas, the grated lemon rind, cinnamon, cocoa, grated carob, egg, sugar and stir to form a homogeneous compound; let stand for 20 minutes.

On a floured pastry board, roll out the thin pasta, cut into discs with a diameter of cm. 7, brush them with the beaten egg, place yourself in the center 1 tablespoon of filling, fold and close well pressing on the edges.

Prepare the cjarsons, cook them in boiling salted water until they come to the surface, collect them with a slotted spoon, then place them in a baking dish and season them with melted hazelnut butter, sprinkling them with the grated ricotta.

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Quick sweets for Mother's Day – Italian Cuisine

Discover our recipes for pastries, cupcakes, kisses and brownies that are easy, fast and original to celebrate mommy in a cheerful and delicious way

You have no idea what to give the mother the May 14th? No problem, a sweet prepared with love is always the ideal gift. With our own recipes for quick desserts for Mother's Day your little thought will be ready in no time (and different from the usual bunch of flowers).

Quick sweets for Mother's Day … with makeup

If you have very little time to prepare a dessert, a cake or some cookies to surprise your mother, rely on the ready bases. You can, for example, buy a pastry in a sponge cake and cut it in half. Then cut out the many cookie cutters little hearts, which you will bathe with fruit juice, orange juice, liqueur or a syrup of water and sugar. Stuff a little heart with the Strawberry jam and close with another little heart. Then glaze the pastry with one chocolate cover very fast, prepared by dissolving 125 ml of cream with 175 g of dark chocolate. Decorated with colorful sugars, edible flowers, a sprinkling of cinnamon or chilli pepper, chopped hazelnuts, cocoa beans or pistachios.
Another idea for quick desserts for Mother's Day with makeup is to buy in the bakery or pastry shop of the simple muffins or undecorated cupcakes. Buy also the colored sugar paste, which is now also found in the most stocked supermarkets, and roll it out with a rolling pin, sprinkling it with icing sugar to prevent it from sticking. Obtain discs to cover the cup caps and then cut the letters with the appropriate molds, with which to compose a love message for the mother.

All mother's kisses

To reciprocate, at least in part, all the kisses that the mother gave us as children give us the gods Lady's Kisses, but with an original touch. Replace the classic almonds with i pistachios and stuff them with one coffee ganache or a cream prepared with ricotta and honey, instead of the gianduia cream.

Brownies in red wine

For a very mother chic, prepare the classics Brownies, but flavored with Red wine. Attention, among the fast desserts for Mother's Day, these are those forbidden to children under 18 years. Melt 120 g of dark chocolate in a bain-marie with 110 g of butter. Let it cool slightly and in the meantime mix in a large bowl 2 eggs, 150 g of sugar and the seeds of half a vanilla bean. Add at this point also the melted chocolate and 60 ml of the mother's favorite red wine mixing the ingredients together. Also add 60 g of flour, 25 g of bitter cocoa and 30-50 g of chocolate drops to the dough. Once obtained a homogeneous mixture, pour it into a rectangular baking sheet lined with baking paper and cook the brownies for about 15 minutes at 180 degrees. Let it cool and cut into squares or hearts using a simple cookie cutter.

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