Italian Desserts

Italian Desserts recipes list

This is the complete list of dessert recipes that you can read in this website, from traditional dishes to new delicious ideas it's easy to find a sweet way to complete your meals. Select one link and enjoy the reading!


Traditional Italian Tarts and Cakes
Apple Tart
Apples are fruits diffuse in Italy that you can use to cook many Italian recipes. There are different kinds of apple: rennet, fuji, royal gala < read more >
Soft Fruits Tart
Soft Fruits Tart

delicious cake with sweet soft fruits. It is an ideal dessert for the autumnal and wintry period!< read more >
Castagnaccio
Castagnaccio

Castagnaccio is a traditional Italian dessert particularly in Tuscany where it is also called baldino or pattona, it is a strange Italian dish but it is simple and fast to prepare< read more >
Pastiera Napoletana
Pastiera Napoletana

This is a dessert typical of Naples that in Italy is used to be prepared during the Easter period< read more >
Peach jam tart with Amaretti
Peach jam tart with Amaretti

A tart with hearts, what a delicious dessert to share with your Valentine!< read more >
Pears and Chocolate Tart
Pears and Chocolate Tart

This tart made of pears and chocolate is ideal for people who have a sweet tooth!< read more >
Sbrisolona
Sbrisolona

This is the traditional Italian recipe of Sbrisolona that is tha cake typical of Mantua, its name describes the consistency hard and crumbly of the cake that might not be cut with< read more >
Cake with Orange Juice
Cake with Orange Juice

This is an Italian breakfast cake made of orange juice. It takes only 10 minutes of preparation to cook this easy, simple and fast recipe and it is delightful< read more >
Strawberry jam tart
Strawberry jam tart

A delicious dessert with strawberry jam! Simple and fast!< read more >
Tart with Figs
Tart with Figs

This is a typical dessert of this period in Italy. In my garden, my fig tree begins to give many figs, and so after made the fig jam I < read more >
Tart with Ricotta and Custard
Tart with Ricotta and Custard

Today I open my fridge and I see ricotta cheese so thinking about what to do with it I decide to prepare a delicious Italian tart with a mixture of ricotta cheese and custard < read more >
Tiramisù
Tiramisu

Tiramisù, absolutely the king of desserts! Prepare it with this easy recipe!< read more >
Zelten
Zelten

I show here the Italian recipe for Zelten that is the traditional dessert prepared in Trentino Alto Adige during the Christmas feast< read more >
Double Color Cake
Double Color Cake

This is the Italian recipe for a delicious double color cake. It is easy and fast to prepare< read more >
Zelten Apple Cake
Apple cake is one of the easiest cakes to prepare that allows you to obtain a delicious dessert good for any type of occasions.< read more >

Traditional Italian Biscuits


Almond Biscuits

Almond Biscuits

This is another delicious Italian recipe of biscuits made of macaroons and almonds. Also these biscuits, like cacao biscuits presented in a previous recipe< read more >
Biscuits with Hazelnuts
Biscuits with Hazelnuts

This is a another delicious Italian recipe of biscuits made of hazelnuts and cacao< read more >
Brutti ma Buoni
Brutti ma Buoni

These are typical biscuits of Piemonte. They are very strange but delicious biscuits< read more >
Cacao Biscuits
Cacao Biscuits

This is a delicious Italian recipe: cacao biscuits made of macaroons and cacao. This recipe is very simple and easy to realize in order to obtain biscuits ideal for a good< read more >
Cantucci
Cantucci

These are the famous "Biscottini of Prato": typical biscuits of Tuscany. Traditionally Cantucci are served with Vin Santo!They are made of almonds< read more >
Cenci
Cenci

This is a typical dessert of Tuscany served in the Carnival period< read more >
Chocolate Carnival Balls
Chocolate Carnival Balls

This coulored sweet is a great idea for every party< read more >
Christmas Biscuits
Christmas Biscuits

This is the typical dessert that my grandmother prepares for the Christmas Eve and the Christmas Day. They are biscuits similar to ravioli and their filling is made with< read more >
Meringue
Meringue

These are delicious and appetizing dessert, fast to prepare in particular when eggs white from other recipes leave. They are simple made of eggs white and sugar< read more >
November Biscuits
November Biscuits

This is an Italian recipe for a typical kind of biscuits, called "Pane dei Morti", traditional from Lombardia . It is prepared for the 2nd of November in every< read more >
Salame al Cioccolato
Salame al Cioccolato

Salame of chocolate is a simple and fast Italian sweet to prepare. It is made of cacao, dried biscuits, sugar, butter and eggs. If you want you can also add some hazelnuts< read more >
Struffoli
Struffoli

Struffoli are an Italian dessert typical of Naples. They consist of tiny fried pieces of dough simply made with flour, sugar, eggs, lemon and rum, completely coated with honey< read more >
Stuffed Biscuits with Jam
Stuffed Biscuits with Jam

There is nothing better than this sweet recipe of stuffed biscuits as first recipe of the new year: it is an ideal recipe for the period of Christmas< read more >


Traditional Italian Fritters
Chiacchiere
Chiacchiere

Chiacchiere, Carnival fried pastry, are typical dessert prepared in Italy in the occasion of Carnival. In each region of Italy they have different names: Cenci in Tuscany< read more >
Doughnuts

Doughnuts

Doughnuts of potatoes are another typical Italian dessert prepared in the occasion of Carnival. The following recipe is that of classical doughnuts that you can eat in each regions of Italy< read more >
Fricio
Fricio

Friciò is a typical Italian recipe that comes from Piemonte. Friciò are fritters traditionally prepared in Piemonte < read more >
Fritters of Chestnuts
Fritters of Chestnuts

This is a typical Italian recipe that is prepared in autumn. This recipe explain the preparation of fritters made of chestnuts flour < read more >
Fritters with Apples
Fritters with Apples

This is another traditional Italian recipe that is typical prepared in occasion of Carnival: it is easy to realize and as main ingredients< read more >
Tortelli of Carnival
Tortelli of Carnival

This is a typical Italian dessert that it is prepared in the occasion of Carnival. Tortelli are little ball of sweet dough< read more >

Traditional Italian Dessert with Fruits
Apple Quince Jam
Apple Quince Jam

The apple quince is a fruit that ripens in the period from October to November, it is an apple with a strange shape< read more >
Cachi au Gratin
Cachi au Gratin

This delicious Italian dessert is made of sweet cachi, dark chocolate and eggs white cooked as meringue: this ingredients < read more >
Figs Jam
Figs Jam

In my garden there is a fig tree that bore a lot of figs in the begining of the last september: I was thinking about a simple way to use them and I decided to make some pots of figs jam< read more >
Pear and Gorgonzola
Pear and Gorgonzola

This is a recipe for a dessert made of pear, walnuts, honey and gorgonzola (Italian cheese)< read more >
Roasted Chestnuts
Roasted Chestnuts

Chestnuts are autumnal fruits that can be used to prepare a great number of Italian recipes, from first courses to second courses, and are a good ingredient for many Italian desserts< read more >