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Yummy Italian desserts
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A list I saw the other day of all the great Italian sweets. Cannoli (Sicilian and Calabrese pastry) Cuccidati (Italian fig cookie) Cuddureddi (Sicilian pastry) Biscotti (Italian cookie) Tiramisu (Italian cake) Sfogliatella (Italian pastry) Sfingi (Sicilian donut holes) Struffoli (Italian honey balls) Pignoli (Italian cookie) Crostoli (Italian cookie) Amaretti (Italian almond cookie) Ricciarelli (Italian cookie) Regina (Italian sesame seed cookie) Pizzelle (Italian waffle cookie) Panettone (Italian Christmas fruit cake) Spumoni (Italian fruit and nut ice cream) Gelati (Italian ice cream) Pandoro (Italian Christmas cake) Cassata alla Siciliana (Sicilian cake) Dolce alla Napoletana (Napolitano layer cake) Bomboloni (Tuscan pastry)
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Re: Yummy Italian desserts
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12/12/11 03:45 PM
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I love cannoli. In my family they'd be either cream filled or ricotta. I prefer ricotta. (Very filling. Can never eat more than one at a sitting) Don't mind Biscotti but really like Pizzelle better. They're not too sweet but very tasty, though flat/thin. Something about them reminds me of the communion host. Go figure. The Ameretti cookies (without anise) are good and along with other cookies mentioned were part of an assortment passed out at Italian weddings back in the day. Sfingi (Sicilian donut holes): EVERY Christmas my grandmother would make Sfingi. Loved them. Never real crazy about spumoni though. TIS
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Re: Yummy Italian desserts
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12/12/11 04:13 PM
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I love cannoli. In my family they'd be either cream filled or ricotta. I prefer ricotta. (Very filling. Can never eat more than one at a sitting) A cannoli without ricotta ain't a cannoli, Tis .
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Re: Yummy Italian desserts
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12/12/11 04:22 PM
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I love cannoli. In my family they'd be either cream filled or ricotta. I prefer ricotta. (Very filling. Can never eat more than one at a sitting) A cannoli without ricotta ain't a cannoli, Tis . Totally agree PB. One of my aunts who's house we'd stop by to visit on Christmas morning ALWAYS had the cream cannoli. My family only made Ricotta. Don't know where/how/why the cream filling started. I don't even have a recipe for the cream, only the ricotta. Matter of taste I guess. TIS
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Re: Yummy Italian desserts
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12/12/11 10:12 PM
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I remember my grandmother frying the struffoli and then drizzling them with honey and sprinkles. They were wonderful. My aunt had the pizzelle iron - they were her specialty.
I don't love tiramisu, but I'm not a big fan of coffee-flavored desserts. But give me a cannoli or a sfogliatelle any day (PB, I'm thinking Egidio's).
As for i sfingi, are they something different than the St. Joseph pastries? We call the pastries that you only get in March I Sfingi di San Giuseppe. SB, Strange as it might seem, my family didn't really do the St. Joseph day feast. My husbands' grandmother did and I remember going once to see how she had decorated. I don't know why but that wasn't the "event" in my family as it seems to have been with others. As for Sfinghi, for us it was a Christmas treat. I never have made it but I remember my grandmother making the dough and shaping or "bunching" (for lack of a better word)them and putting in boiling oil for just a few minutes. She then coated it with either sugar or powdered sugar (don't remember which). TIS
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Re: Yummy Italian desserts
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12/13/11 12:41 AM
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I've had those before SB and they are great. I always thought of them more as an Italian cream puff. Didn't know they were sfingi. They're good. This is more what I knew sfingi to be only I don't remember them being filled with ricotta: http://angelninascottage.com/2009/04/17/ricotta-puffs-or-sfingi-di-ricotta/ TIS
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Re: Yummy Italian desserts
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12/13/11 11:29 AM
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Mine, too, by far! I don't hate them, but I'm just not a huge sweet cookie/cake fan in general (except cold ones like tiramisu, mousse, ice cream cake, etc). My great-aunt (we called her zizi (pronounced similar to the Tsetse fly), but as kids pronounced it "titsy" lol) used to make wonderful anise/anisette cookies kind of like this but without the sprinkles. Every now and then I might find some that vaguely remind me, but I haven't found "them" yet. I'm not much of a baker, but I'm gonna try that recipe...
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