Light Italian desserts

In Italy, it is customary to prepare simple light desserts. The pannacotta, tiramisu, and also cheese in the form of broken pieces or dishes from it (ricotta, philadelphia and others), berries and fruit are especially popular. Italian desserts are often served in the form of flour and confectionery products, such as pies, a variety of cookies, delicious cakes and unique tartlets. Italians and ice cream are fond of, there are many varieties of it. It can be as a fruit sherbet, and garlic or cheese delicacy.

Let's look at several ways in which Italian desserts are prepared.

1.Tiramisu

Ingredients: four eggs, one hundred grams of sugar, five hundred grams of mascarpone, two hundred and fifty grams (34 pcs.) Of Savoyardi biscuits or biscuit sticks, three hundred and fifty grams of instant or boiled coffee, cocoa.

Yolks must be separated from proteins and grinded with sugar. To the resulting mass, add mascarpone and gently mix. Separately whisk the proteins, which are then added to the yolks and mix well.

Cookies or biscuit sticks are dipped in cold coffee (for three hundred grams of three spoons of coffee) and instantly pulled out so they are not soaked. They put them on a baking sheet, they are covered with a layer of cream paste on top, then again they put a layer of cookies soaked in coffee, everything is sprinkled with cocoa.

This dessert turns out to be tender enough and airy, therefore it is necessary to cut it into small portions carefully.

2. Italian sweets from Parmesan

Ingredients: 100 grams of Parmesan or Padano granola and black chocolate.

Parmesan is broken into small pieces, chocolate is heated on a steam bath. Slices of cheese are dipped in chocolate and stacked on parchment paper for solidification.

This dessert is perfectly combined with champagne, but you can use it yourself.

3. Italian pastry from Trentino

Ingredients: one hundred and thirty grams of dry figs and prunes, one hundred grams of dried pears, sixty grams of candied fruits and raisins, one hundred grams of almonds, fifty grams of rye flour, one hundred grams of wheat flour, seventy grams of sugar, half a spoonful of ground cinnamon, one spoonful Cinnamon, pinch of anise and ground cloves, butter.

Figs, pears and prunes are soaked in water for the night, then squeezed and cut into cubes. Raisins soaked in water for twenty minutes, add together with candied fruits, almonds, spices, sugar and salt to dried fruits, mix thoroughly and leave for half an hour. At the end of this time, add the flour and mix the dough.

Put the parchment paper on the baking sheet , greased with butter, spread the dough on top of it, decorate it with candied fruit, put it in the oven and bake for about an hour. After this, the dessert is cooled and cut into small pieces.

4. Italian desserts - jasmine ice cream

Ingredients: fifty flowers of jasmine, one hundred and fifty grams of sugar, one cinnamon stick or scorzonera root, one stack of rum, four squirrels.

The flowers are put in bowls, pour 500 ml of water and leave for three hours. The resulting infusion is filtered, poured into a saucepan, cinnamon and sugar are added and boiled, then it is cooled and filtered again.

Whites are beaten, mixed with infusion and rum. The resulting mass is spread into a mold and placed in the freezer. When the ice cream is frozen a little, it is taken out, carefully beaten and again put in the cold. This procedure is repeated several times. Dessert is served in tall glasses or glass crockery.

Thus, Italian desserts are easy, simple, and most importantly - excellent taste, so they are suitable for lovers of sweet any age category.