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Cakes and Cookies

Peach and chocolate amaretti cake recipe
It feels a bit strange to welcome fall into the kitchen with a recipe that tastes so much like summer, like this amaretti cake with peaches and chocolate. It’s all because of this summer, which began in May and still doesn’t seem ready to end, even though the calendar says otherwise. Finally, temperatures are dropping a bit,…
10 October 2026
Jam tart 125 (egg-free). A simple recipe and the power of word of mouth
The 125 tart is made with four ingredients in equal amounts, 125 grams each. Four-quarter cakes are soft, buttery desserts made with four basic ingredients: flour, butter, sugar, and eggs, in equal amounts. Usually, the weight of the eggs determines the quantities of the other ingredients, making it a perfect base for tall, fluffy cakes. All clear? Well,…
13 March 2026
Sweet tortelloni
Sweet tortelloni from Bologna. A Carnival recipe
Sweet tortelloni, usually fried, is a specialty of the Bologna Carnival. On the other hand, Carnival means fried food. Each city has its own mask and a handful of fried treats. Castagnole is probably the most widespread and versatile Italian Carnival sweets. Zeppole and chiacchiere belong mainly to the Southern Italian tradition, while frittelle (fritters) are more…
19 February 2025
Spongata cake
Spongata cake, an old Christmas recipe from Emilia
Spongata cake is a recipe from Emilia that has very ancient origins. Signs of its ancestors can be traced to Etruscan, Jewish, and Roman cultures. In medieval times, nuns and monks reworked the recipe. Little by little, and that is the history of all the panspeziale (spice cakes) and panforte of Europe, the spongata cake left…
6 December 2024
Sabadoni
Sabadoni cookies from cucina povera of Romagna and Bologna
Sabadoni cookies are sweet, rectangular-shaped tortelli filled with chestnuts and a handful of other ingredients. They are a typical sweet from the cucina povera of Romagna, which we can find under the same name or under that of chestnut tortelli in an area that also includes Bologna and Ferrara. The name sabadoni comes from saba, the…
7 November 2024
Cocoa and ricotta cake
Cocoa and ricotta cake. About a weekend kitchen project
Stroll through the stalls of one of the food markets that, every Sunday morning, you can find in my neighborhood. I am one among many, the still floppy cotton shopper slung over my shoulder lazily waiting to be filled. I glance at the food the stalls offer, looking more carefully at my favorites. I take…
26 April 2024
Torta dei 5 minuti
5 minutes cake, a typical recipe of Emilia-Romagna
In this gastronomic journey along the Via Emilia in search and rediscovery of familiar memories and flavors, sometimes it happens that I discover little culinary surprises. Recipes I have never heard of, such as the 5 minutes cake or, in Italian, torta dei cinque minuti. Honestly, I was surprised to discover that The Slow Food Dictionary…
8 February 2024
Chocolate panpepato from Ferrara
Chocolate panpepato from Ferrara, the recipe
The panpepato, or pampapato, is a skullcap-shaped cake. Dedicated to the Pope, created in 1580 from an idea of Alfonso II d'Este, the Lord of the city of Ferrara, and still produced both artisanally and commercially. Made from a mixture of cake flour, honey, bitter cocoa, toasted almonds, a mixture of spices (the composition is…
12 December 2023
Marsala and semolina tart with pine nuts recipe
Marsala and semolina tart with pine nuts recipe
Semolina and Marsala tart is a recipe that tastes of family, memories, and pine forest. As a child, I spent all my summers at the seaside. The destination was always the Riviera Romagnola. What changed over the years were the villages where we rented a house for the season. And although I am fond of all the…
22 September 2023
Tortelli dolci di San Lazzaro
Sweet tortelli of Saint Lazarus, a typical Lenten cookie
The sweet tortelli di San Lazzaro are typical cookies of Lent and the city of Faenza, a small town in Romagna that I frequented for a long time with my family. Faenza was the destination of many Sunday walks with my family. I remember the walks in Bucci public garden and merenda with fried crescentine bought hot…
22 March 2023

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