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Italian Sweets

The regional cuisine of Italy is surely a
delight to the senses. With the pasta,There are desserts that many people take for
seafood, savory meats and cheeses, andgranted. Rice pudding, for example, is one of
delicious crusty breads, it is hard to stopthe simplest pleasures for Italian
yourself from eating until you are packedhouseholds. Milk, sugar, rice, and cinnamon
full. However, if you do not remember to saveare the staples of this favorite, but it can
a little room, you may miss out on the bestbe substituted to taste with extra sugar,
part: dessert. No one does desserts quitehoney, nutmeg, or raisins. My personal
like the Italians. From simple fruity fingerfavorite is with extra cinnamon and dried
foods to savory layered tortes, the Italian'scranberries. Another simple that many people
make desserts for every palette. From theforget about, or perhaps even loathe, is the
chocolate lover to someone looking forPanettone, otherwise known as fruit cake. A
something lighter and more refreshing, youstaple on many Christmas tables, the
are sure to find something to your looking inPanettone has gotten a bad rep in the United
an  Italian  bakery.States, perhaps because of its strong Anise
taste. When done right though, a Panettone
One of my favorite Italian desserts has beencan  be  truly  delightful.
a staple of my Grandmother's dessert table at
holiday dinners for as long as I canOther than the cannoli, the most popular
remember. The best part is that it isItalian dessert is undoubtedly Tiramisu. This
something that I was always able to helpalcoholic spongy cake has taken the world by
with. Stuffed dates were always a task thatstorm with relatively young origins. No one
the kids could do, by simply taking theseems to know exactly how the Tiramisu was
pre-sliced dates and stuffing about a teainvented, or by who. What does seem to be
spoon full of cream cheese into them and thenagreed upon is that it was invented sometime
dotting them each with a pecan, we could bein the 1960s in the Veneto region of Italy.
happy to know we had helped. Even if we ate aThe ingredients of Tiramisu are basic, but
date  or  two  along  the  way.everyone seems to do it a little bit
different. Mascarpone, espresso and
A variation on this dessert, which is popularzabaglione cream make up the complimentary
in Milan takes a little bit more grown uptastes of this delicious dessert, but it
help. After the dates are stuffed with thewould be impossible to create without the
cream cheese, a grown up can dip the datebase of savoiardi cake, otherwise known as
into a mixture of bittersweet chocolate andlady fingers. These spongy biscuits make
milk and then let them harden. The product istrouble for pastry servers with their
a delicious, almost candy-like concoctiondelicate spongy nature, but like all Italian
that appeals to the sweet and the salty tastedesserts are well worth the trouble.
buds.



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