Desserts

When I found this caramel popcorn recipe, I ran to the kitchen to prepare it immediately. I love popcorn. It’s a curious love because I can stay for months without eating it, but when I eat I just have to eat a lot of popcorn. […]

This chocolate Christmas tree touched me. One of those recipes you see and can’t take your mind out of it. I just had to give it a try. Give a try? Yes, because it is simple, what isn’t the same thing as easy. But it’s […]

I firstly heard about salted caramel two years ago. I spent some days in Paris with my sister and it seemed that there was salted caramel everywhere. My sister owns a catering service in Rio, and so we were two food passionate in Paris. From […]

I was lucky enough to eat this Italian chocolate pudding always in its birth place, Piedmont. I was always promising myself to prepare it at home and I finally did it some weeks ago. I was lucky again to try the “right” recipe, the one […]

I admit I had never seen a gingerbread house recipe since about a month ago, when I watched an episode of Australian Masterchef TV series when two competitors had to bake and build a gingerbread house following a famous pastry chef recipe. (By the way, […]

Palmiers reminds me my grandmother. She had fixed things she liked and each time she went out with my father (they usually go out for shopping on Saturday afternoons), she bought these same things. Once she noticed I liked canned peaches…so there was always a […]

Banana booooo!!! Well, my children are grown but the child inside me is still alive :-)! Halloween became a worldwide known holiday and, even if I do not prepare anything special for this day, I couldn’t resist these bananas and the chocolate witch brooms you […]

When I saw this frozen yogurt recipe I couldn’t resist. Because it is beautiful…and healthy. A little detail could be that I do not like yogurt…but I thought about preparing it to my daughter who loves it, especially with granola and fresh fruits. I prepared […]

When I found this coconut popsicles I decided I’d prepare them for my daughter’s return from China, where she stayed for 3 1/2 months with her university. So I did. Yesterday afternoon I prepared them and she arrived yesterday evening. Today I asked her if […]

This ricotta cheesecake conquered me. Cheesecakes are pretty common also here in Italy. I have tried some, prepared another recipes, but none had captured me. Since I have found this ricotta cheesecake. THIS is the one. I have found it on the great blog Alexandra’s Kitchen, […]