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Category: Seasonal sweets

Every time of the year has its sweets: discover the Christmas cakes, Easter tarts and carnival cakes!

Carnival cakes Reading: 2 min

Lactose-Free Fried Doughnuts: Recipe Without Milk

Lactose-Free Fried Doughnuts: Let’s Make Them at Home If you are intolerant to milk, here is a version of fried doughnuts suitable for people who cannot tolerate lactose. Everyone can enjoy these delicious doughnuts and make them at home. Ingredients for 15/20 medium-sized doughnuts […]

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Carnival cakes Reading: 2 min

Gluten-Free Fried Doughnuts, Just Like at the Café

How Do You Make Gluten-Free Fried Doughnuts? If you cannot eat gluten but would still like to enjoy these delicious doughnuts, this is the recipe for you. Take out pen and paper and prepare it with us. The ingredients for the gluten-free fried bomboloni begin with 160 g gluten-free flour […]

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Carnival cakes Reading: 3 min

Italian Carnival Chiacchiere: Fried Pastry Recipe

Do you know how to make chiacchiere, the delicious fried pastries eaten at Carnival? They are called chiacchiere in Lombardy, frappe and sfrappole in Emilia-Romagna, cenci or donzelle in Tuscany, and crostoli or galani in Trentino and Veneto. These very thin, crisp pastries are usually fried and dusted with […]

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Christmas cakes Reading: 3 min

Homemade Artisan Nougat: Recipe

Historic recipe for homemade soft torrone with honey, egg whites, almonds and hazelnuts: ingredients, wafer paper, method and notes on unverified cooking temperatures.

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Christmas cakes Total time: 24 min

Pan di Stelle Mooncake

Mooncake: A Recipe in 4 Steps, Just Like the Original Would you like to make a soft sweet snack filled with delicious cream? Prepare these Mooncakes by following the easy step-by-step recipe. You will need 2 eggs, 100 g sugar, 75 g butter and a little red gel food colouring […]

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Halloween Sweets Reading: 2 min

Halloween Mushrooms Ready in Just 5 Minutes

Make Halloween Mushrooms in Just 5 Minutes Do you fancy an autumn-inspired mushroom-shaped treat? Are you short on time but still want to surprise your guests? You will need the following ingredients: Tutto Pasticceria meringue mix, 150 ml water and chopped nuts as required […]

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Cake decorations Reading: 3 min

Pumpkin-Shaped Halloween Cake: Decorating Tutorial

The Origins of Halloween The word Halloween is of Anglo-Saxon origin and comes from the contraction of “All Hallows’ Eve”, the night before All Saints’ Day. In Celtic Ireland it coincided with the end of summer. Orange represented the harvest and the end of the season, while […]

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Easter cakes Total time: 26 hr

How to Make an Easter Colomba

History The Easter colomba recipe was created in Lombardy around 1930 from an idea by Motta. It quickly spread throughout Italy and became a traditional Easter dessert, found on Italian tables every Easter Sunday. The old colomba tradition also reached Sicily […]

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Christmas cakes Reading: 2 min

Filled Pandoro with a Sugar Nativity Scene

At Christmas, everyone wants to prepare something special, so why not fill a delicious pandoro? If you are unsure how to decorate it, the ready-to-use sugar Nativity scene is available from the Tutto Pasticceria online shop. Simply place the figures on a cake, pandoro, muffins or cupcakes […]

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