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Easter Dove Bread – Colomba Pasquale

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Colomba pasquale  or colomba di Pasqua  (“Easter Dove” in English) is an Italian traditional Easter cake, the counterpart of the two well-known Italian Christmas desserts, panettone and pandoro. The dough for the colomba is made in a similar manner to panettone, with flour, eggs, sugar, natural yeast and butter; unlike […]

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Crostata Tart with Homemade Peach Jam

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Crostata is a sweet simple pastry, sold in most bakeries and patisseries in Italy as well as in France. It is very easy to make at home and does not require any planning. As long as you have the ingredients to make a short crust pastry and some jam, it […]

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Mrs. Julia Child's Fruit Cake (Sticky Cake)

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This is the perfect cake for all dry fruit and nut lovers. If you travelled to Tuscany you might have tasted a slice of “Panforte”, the delicious spicy bread. I didn’t know it was possible to recreate the flavor of that Tuscany speciality till, last X-mas, I received a delicious fruit cake […]