Panettone has become internationally renowned and it’s now a classic of many Christmas tables. And yet, I’ve learned to appreciate it quite recently, probably since I tried some homemade ones that made me change my mind. Let’s be honest and say that making Panettone is…
There are some flavours that combine particularly well together. And that’s the case of chocolate, Amaretti biscuits and pears. The match of chocolate and pears is already well known, while the addition of Amaretti is less common but quite interesting. For the few who are unfamiliar…
Peanut butter has been an unknown taste for most of my life. It’s just doesn’t belong to the food culture where I grew up. During my childhood, the only spread occasionally allowed was Nutella, of course. Peanut butter, though, was a recurrent mention in my…
Browsing through the Internet in search of inspiration, I came across the recipe of a young talented Italian pastry chef. And it just happened to have in my cupboard some leftovers of the flavoursome ground hazelnut I had bought in one of my trips to Piemonte,…
Think about a secret club. Not one where you plot misdeeds, of course, but an itinerant gathering of amateur bakers that periodically meets in a different teahouse to share their creative cakes. Far from any competitiveness, the intention was to choose every time a different…
Does ever happen to you to crave a fast-baking cake for your snack or just for the pleasure of something sweet, but you have very basic ingredients at home? Well, that’s the cake that does for you, then!
