The spiced twisted cookies have a double flavor, half of the dough is scented with cocoa and orange peel (it’s always a winning combination 😉 ), the other half is flavored with vanilla and cardamom 🙂 . The two parts of the dough not only have two different flavors, but also two colors, a great way to create a cute tangled effect that will make … Read More
Purple Spell (blueberry cocktail)
For a couple of week, we have started doing experiments in molecular cuisine… Finally we are ready to prepare you our first recipe: Purple Spell. This blueberry cocktail will amaze and delight your friends 🙂 . In a base of vodka and ice, small molecular blueberry float free… Just before drinking it, shake it and by magic your drink will turn deep purple.For … Read More
Caramelized pineapple mousse with vanilla
Even if it snows and we are (still) in winter, we’ll present you a dessert with fruity taste and spring mood: a caramelized pineapple mousse made with ricotta cheese and perfumed vanilla seeds. This pineapple mousse, light and quick to prepare, is excellent served on its own, or also accompanied with a slice of freshly baked cake 😉 . Preparing the … Read More
Contest easter cakes: the winner
We’ve made it, after all this time we have prepared and tasted the 3 finalist recipes of the Easter cakes’ contest 😀 . Before announcing the winner we have to tell you that all the three desserts were great and very different from each other 🙂 Colombine by In cucina con Marika: the small doves are made with a brioche dough, lightly scented … Read More
Review of Torta 900 by Balla
We decided to inaugurate this new section of our blog reviewing a legend of northern Italian pastry: the Torta 900 by Balla, Ivrea 🙂 . No one precisely knows the recipe for this dessert, created and patented by the Italian pastry chef Bertinotti at the end of the nineteenth century, although many have tried to prepare it … And to be honest, we … Read More
Venere rice with prawns and orange
It’s been a long time since the last time we presented a rice recipe… And we wanted to prepare something special… So we took two birds with one stone and decided to add the aroma and taste of oranges to the classic black rice with prawns 🙂 . Choose carefully your black rice, taking care if it is a pre-cooked rice … Read More
Chicken bastilla
Chicken bastilla is a traditional savory pie from Morocco. A brittle warka dough shell  contains a multitude of flavors: tasty chicken with saffron and ras el hanout, spicy omelet, toasted almonds scented with orange blossom water; all topped with powdered sugar and cinnamon 😀 . Yes, for the Italian conception of the savory-sweet this recipe may saound strange, but it really is tasty and spectacular… … Read More
Tartlets with leeks and potatoes
Happy New Year 🙂 ! We’ll start 2015 with a vegetarian quiche made with vegetables typical of the winter months. Here are the tartlets with leeks and potatoes, enriched with parmesan, enclosed in a tasty hazelnut shortcrust pastry. Notes If you want to prepare a single pie, you have to increase by 50% the crust ingredients and double the filling, and then … Read More
White gianduja hot chocolate
The time of a homemade hot chocolate has come! 🙂 This time, however, we decided to prepare a recipe less known, but equally delicious and suitable for adults and kids: white gianduja hot chocolate! The term gianduia indicates the simple addition of hazelnut paste to chocolate, in this recipe, white chocolate. A marriage less common than with milk chocolate or dark chocolate, but … Read More
Shaken iced coffee
These last days of summer warmth are trying to disappoint us… So let us not be overwhelmed and let’s prepare a good shaken iced coffee instead 🙂 !An easy and fast idea for a chat with some friends 🙂 .