breads and different types of sweet treats
Ciao a tutti! Il panettone in Italy is a fluffy, light, soft cake usually with raisins, candied fruits like oranges, pistachio, other dried fruits and sometimes chocolate or other flavours. It is a sweet cake and is most often seen around Christmas and New Years time, which is the high season for panettone. Although the […]
Ciao a tutti! Here is your ice cream tour of Italy! Can ice cream, or gelato, be vegan? YES! And you will find it in ample amounts throughout Italy! Bases include rice milks, soy milks, coconut milks and even ice cream made with olive oil?? YES!! But YOU will have to do the personal taste […]
Ciao a tutti! So I attempted to make some vegan croissants – or brioche as they are called in Italy (a brioche is just simply a croissant-type biscuit :)) I can say as far a deliciousness level – they were very yummy! Visually, however – let’s just say that it takes a little bit of […]
Ciao a tutti! We just got back from Modica, Sicily. It was so hot down there and we were swimming in the sea, so nice! Italy is pretty warm all over right now so it definitely helps to be where there is a beach 🙂 We stopped in to see our friend Alberto at his […]
Ciao a tutti! I “invented” a rather delicious muffin recipe and could not help but share it with all of you! It is very easy to make and the muffins turned out quite nice. We made a batch of about 24, half of which we put into the freezer. They last about a month in […]