06 Aug
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White chocolate desire
I definitely love white chocolate. Although it is better to be careful with it, avoiding big quantities, sometimes I love to pamper myself with a couple of white chocolate small cubes… oh how delicious they are!!! It’s an admissible transgression if you have an healthy lifestyle, eating a lot of fruit and vegetables and training regularly ;)
White chocolate is the main ingredient of today’s recipe: White Chocolate Desire. The combination of this creamy and delicious dessert with blueberries is a perfect marriage for my taste buds. I hope it will be the same for yours. ;) Here you can find the recipe.
Suggested movie: The manual of love (G. Veronesi, 2005)

12 Jul
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Carrot and Chocolate Cake

My mom says I am like a bunny because I like crunching carrots. I can’t explain why but I love raw carrots… and recently I realized how good they are with chocolate. The recipe I want to share today is a cake made by grated carrots and dark chocolate. I think the bitterness of the dark chocolate matches perfectly with the sweet taste of carrots. Try it and let me know! Here is the recipe!

Suggested movie: Looney Tunes: back in action (J. Dante, 2003)

“Bugs Bunny: Oh, I hate to see a grown man cry… especially when it’s a girl.”

02 Feb
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Chocolate Salami
This is a typical Italian dessert, loved especially by kids. It’s a quick and easy recipe and it doesn’t require to be cooked. You just need a bar of dark chocolate, some biscuits, butter, sugar and two eggs… mix everything together and that’s it! Here is how to make it. Have fun! :)
“Narrator: In the end, Charlie Bucket won a chocolate factory. But Willy Wonka had something even better, a family. And one thing was absolutely certain: life had never been sweeter. ”

09 Jan
4 Notes
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Chocolate cream
I like chocolate, so much! When I have chocolate at home, I usually eat it. Sometimes after Christmas there is a lot of chocolate at home, too much to eat all of it… so I like to use it in the kitchen, as an ingredient for my recipes. Chocolate cream is a very quick and easy dessert. You just need to mix custard and dark chocolate. After few hours in the fridge, it’s ready to taste. You can decorate the chocolate cream with raspberries: their red colour brightens the appearance of the dessert and their bitter taste makes more ‘sophisticated’ the flavour of the cream. Take a look at the recipe.

Suggested movie: Like water for chocolate (A. Arau, 1992)
‘Pedro: I’m a man of few, but firm, words.’

02 Dec
15 Notes
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Pear and Chocolate Cake
Pear is an extraordinary ingredient. Italian cookery uses this fruit in a lot of recipes: risotto with pears, pears with cheese, pear and chocolate pie are just few examples.
Today’s recipe is pear and chocolate cake. This is a delicious and soft cake you can eat for breakfast or as a dessert as well. Take a look at the recipe here.

Suggested movie: Chocolat (L. Hallstrom, 2000)
“Storyteller: But still the clever north wind was not satisfied. It spoke to Vianne of towns yet to be visited, friends in need yet to be discovered, battles yet to be fought… By someone else, next time.”

19 Oct
4 Notes

Recipe: Caprese Cake

As promised in the previous post…

Makes: 8 servings
Preparation time: 30 minutes
Cooking time: 1 hour

Ingredients:

  • 250 gr very soft butter
  • 300 gr ground almonds
  • 200 gr caster sugar
  • 250 gr dark chocolate
  • 5 eggs
  • Icing sugar for dusting

Preparation method:
1. Heat the oven to 180°C and grease a large cake tin.
2. Now we need to smash the chocolate in chunks and to melt it at bain-marie
3. In a bowl whisk the butter and half the sugar together until creamy. Add the egg yolks (keep the egg whites aside) and stir until smooth.
4. Now it’s time for the chocolate: stir in the melted chocolate and mix until well combined.
5. Add the ground almonds and stir gently but constantly.
6. Beat the egg whites with the rest of the sugar until stiff. Add them to the mixture, delicately.
7. Pour the cake mix into the cake tin. Bake for one hour.
8. Remove the cake from the oven and set aside to cool. Remove from the tin and sprinkle with icing sugar.

19 Oct
2 Notes
Caprese CakeHave you ever been in Capri? It’s a beautiful island in the Gulf of Naples famous for its climate, wonderful sea and breathtaking sightseeing. Oh… and it’s one of the most romantic places in the world! I’ve been there many times and it is always different: on a sunny day it can impress you with the bright white of its houses, when it’s cloudy it suddenly becomes mysterious. Capri has also a noteworthy gastronomic tradition. Today’s recipe is a really famous cake from this island: a delightful chocolate and almonds cake. And you don’t need flour to prepare it! The result is crunchy outside and soft inside. Try it with chantilly cream, and don’t forget a hot espresso once you’ve finished your slice of cake.Suggested Movie: It started in Naples (M. Shavelson, 1960)“Michael Hamilton: You have to approach the hamburger with assurance. If you show it that you are frightened you’ll end up with a shirt full of mustard. Show it who’s boss: you have to attack life the same way.” Caprese CakeHave you ever been in Capri? It’s a beautiful island in the Gulf of Naples famous for its climate, wonderful sea and breathtaking sightseeing. Oh… and it’s one of the most romantic places in the world! I’ve been there many times and it is always different: on a sunny day it can impress you with the bright white of its houses, when it’s cloudy it suddenly becomes mysterious. Capri has also a noteworthy gastronomic tradition. Today’s recipe is a really famous cake from this island: a delightful chocolate and almonds cake. And you don’t need flour to prepare it! The result is crunchy outside and soft inside. Try it with chantilly cream, and don’t forget a hot espresso once you’ve finished your slice of cake.Suggested Movie: It started in Naples (M. Shavelson, 1960)“Michael Hamilton: You have to approach the hamburger with assurance. If you show it that you are frightened you’ll end up with a shirt full of mustard. Show it who’s boss: you have to attack life the same way.”

Caprese Cake
Have you ever been in Capri? It’s a beautiful island in the Gulf of Naples famous for its climate, wonderful sea and breathtaking sightseeing. Oh… and it’s one of the most romantic places in the world! I’ve been there many times and it is always different: on a sunny day it can impress you with the bright white of its houses, when it’s cloudy it suddenly becomes mysterious. Capri has also a noteworthy gastronomic tradition. Today’s recipe is a really famous cake from this island: a delightful chocolate and almonds cake. And you don’t need flour to prepare it! The result is crunchy outside and soft inside. Try it with chantilly cream, and don’t forget a hot espresso once you’ve finished your slice of cake.
Suggested Movie: It started in Naples (M. Shavelson, 1960)
“Michael Hamilton: You have to approach the hamburger with assurance. If you show it that you are frightened you’ll end up with a shirt full of mustard. Show it who’s boss: you have to attack life the same way.”