Italian dessert recipes

These Italian dessert recipes will surely make your mouth waters ...think about tiramisu , panna cotta , crostata , amaretto ,...

Italian desserts are usually very creamy... or dry at all, like amaretto.

As for tiramisu, there are industrialized choices ( panna cotta is one of them) if you don't feel like doing it yourself (or maybe don't have enough time to). Obviously the homemade ones are better, but I dmit that there are some industrialized ones that are quite good.

Tiramisu means "pick me up", and the reason for this name has different stories. Some say it's just because it contains coffee and so it "awakes" and picks up. Some other say that this dessert was created in XVII century in Siena, when some pastry chefs decided to prepare a dessert for the Grand Duke of Tuscany Cosimo de Medici.

The leggend says that it became the favourite dessert of the noblemen that attributed aphrodisiac and exciting properties, explaining the reason for its name.

Another version says that a Turin pastry chef, wishing to support Count of Cavour in his difficult enterprise of unifying Italy created this special dessert.

As you can see in these recipes, Italian desserts are made of genuine fresh ingredients. These main recipes need not more than 5 fresh and easy-to-find ingredients, as all the Italian cuisine. Panna Cotta is a less famous dessert that origins of Piedmont Italian region, but not less tasty. Nowadays it is having a re-launching in the sense that it's difficult not to find it in the menus, and it is always present among the main Italian dessert recipes. It is a milk cream pudding that closes a meal in a very soft way.

The Italian crostata recalls the homemade pies of the grandma's. Try it and you'll see what a wonderful aroma will spread from your oven. You can do it using the most traditional fruit jam, but also vary using apples, Nutella or even dry fruit.

Italian amaretto is typical from quite whole Italy. As I live in Sardinia I vote for Sardinia ones, which conquered me since the first time I tried them. Even if there are a few ingredients, this is the most delicate recipe, as you'll need to get more practice doing it more times. But I assure you it worths the try!