Antonella Cooking Classes
Well I can say I’m not a fan of Valentine’s day, but any occasion is good for baking! I love the idea of these little tarts, mostly of desserts and tarts are pretty better if they are made in smaller individual portions. I used the classic sablèe dough, is richer in butter and sugar then
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Candied fruits. Someone hates them, someone loves them. I have always been part of the first ones, small chunks of candied orange peel or candied pumpkin have the power to keep me away from cassate, cannoli or christmas panettone. For the same reason I was not a big fan of the senese Christmas cake, the
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Flour, eggs, butter, sugar. Few ingredients perform an authentic magic: the pasta frolla, italian short pastry. Fragrant tarts spreaded with jams, buttery cookies, crunchy shells filled with parfumed cream and fresh fruits… the pastry dough is the quintessential of the Italian cooking. The dough is quick and easy to make, but the ingredients can be
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More than 10 years ago I discovered this cake on my favorite italian food magazine “sale e pepe”. Absolutely easy to make, nutty and rich in chocolate, this cake became a family classic, loved and requested by Aurora for each her birthday! The original recipe is without baking powder, but in my version I prefer
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2016 was the year of the babka! Surfing around the blogosphere you can find lots of blogs and magazines writing about this traditional jewish… bread? brioche? A babka it’s a buttery rich brioche, marbled with chocolate or nuts and topped with streusel. It’s a traditional easter Polish dessert, nowdays produced in lots of New York
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It’s monday morning, kids came back school after the festive holidays, so we can say that in Italy the New Year begins now. Christmas Holiday are over, our tree and all the Christmas decorations are stored and this day is little bit sad, especially for my little girl, the weather it’s so cold outside and
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Several years ago I was watching a Nigella’s TV series and, as usually happen, I was completely kidnapped by her words, her relaxed and confidential approach to food and cooking skill. I saw her making a clementine cake. With her personal way to look straight into the camera, like to tell you “ Yes, it’s
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I met Chris during a class last July. We shook hands, we seated around the table and we started talking. Meat sauce recipe has been our first topic. Chris has Italian roots, from Southern Italy, and he still uses to cook the meat sauce each Sunday for all his family following his grandmother recipe. He
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Since I got married I always spend a couple of days in the kitchen before Christmas baking cookies and cakes for friends and family. It’s our family tradition and I love to renovated it each year with my daughters, even if this period of the year is busy like for everybody. Nowadays we can do
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