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Panettone (Italian Christmas fruit cake)
Being Italian, Christmas is not Christmas without the traditional fruit cake called Panettone.I never thought I would be able to make it successfuly at home. It has always been one of those few food...
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Lemon tea cakes
I adore a sweet bite in the afternoon with my tea break. I found these delightful and tart mini-cakes on a magazine a few years ago and kept it in my cut-out files (it’s full of flour and butter...
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Lemon and olive oil cake (Torta all’olio e limone)
My grandmother’s (nonna Paola) recipe. There are many versions of this cake around Italy, but of course I like my nonna’s one. It’s light and delicious at any time of the day. We used to have it for...
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Colomba pasquale (Easter dove) – mini-cakes
For Easter lunch I made “Colomba pasquale” which literraly means Easter Dove in Italian.It is a traditional Italian Easter sweet and soft risen bread which contains orange peel (zested or candied) and...
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Pear cake with wild-flower honey glaze
First of all, apologies if I have not posted in a few days…I have been busy settling into a new job (same company)!!! It is challenging yet at the same time extremely interesting and stimulating. But...
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Tortine di yogurt al limone (mini lemon-yogurt-oil cakes)
When I was a teenager, in Italy, my girl-friends and I would make these tiny cakes to take a break from homework during the afternoon. This was such a popular sweet treat to make among young girls...
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“Torta magica”– A magic cake
There is no mystery to this fact: life is hard. And that is precisely why we all can use a little bit of *magic* every day. No one goes immune through this journey: we all get dealt hard cards, at...
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