Best Homemade Italian Recipes
Traditional Italian dessert recipes including gelato, panna cotta, cannoli, and more.
This easy no-bake chocolate cake in a jar steams on the stovetop and gets a warm chocolate soak, ready in about 45 minutes. Each jar makes 1 cake from egg, flour, cocoa and chocolate chips, so you can scale it up for guests without turning on the oven. Why This Recipe Works Steaming does the …
Italian panettone pumpkin bread pudding is a baked dessert of panettone in pumpkin custard with candied pecans and caramel, ready in 1 hour 25 minutes. It feeds 12, a good way to use up leftover panettone. Why This Recipe Works Panettone is already rich with eggs and butter, so it soaks up custard without turning …
Italian apple crostata cups are buttery ricotta and apple bars with a crumble top and a caramel drizzle, ready in about 1 hour 25 minutes. The pan cuts into 9 squares, and they are best made ahead because they need to cool completely before you slice them. Why This Recipe Works The base and the …
These Ricotta Apple Bars Recipe makes oat-crust squares with creamy ricotta, diced apples and a vanilla drizzle, ready in about 1 hour 25 minutes. It makes 16 small squares, an easy dessert to bake ahead for a party or a coffee break. Why This Recipe Works The crust and the topping come from one bowl …
Easy pumpkin biscotti recipe makes soft, cake-like pumpkin cookies with cinnamon and white chocolate chips, ready in about 35 minutes. It makes about 18 cookies, and the dough comes together in one bowl with no chilling. Why This Recipe Works Creaming the soft butter with the sugar for about 2 minutes works air into the …
Pumpkin amaretti cookies are soft, chewy almond cookies with pumpkin purée and pumpkin pie spice, rolled in powdered sugar, ready in about 35 minutes. This batch makes about 24 small cookies, they are naturally gluten free, and they use only egg whites and almond flour. Why This Recipe Works Blotting the pumpkin purée with a …
Easy Italian ricotta pumpkin bars are a shortbread-style cinnamon crust, a baked pumpkin layer and a whipped ricotta topping, ready in about 4 hours 5 minutes including the chill. They make 24 squares, and you can make them a day ahead for a party. Why This Recipe Works The crust is a buttery shortbread made …
Easy pumpkin cheesecake pairs pumpkin puree and warm spices with a brown butter graham crust, ready in about 8 hours 20 minutes with the overnight chill. It cuts into 12 slices and bakes gently in a water bath. Why This Recipe Works Brown butter in the crust does more than plain melted butter. Cooked until …
Easy amaretti cookies are chewy almond cookies made with almond flour, sugar and egg whites, ready in about 45 minutes. The recipe makes about 24 cookies, and the dough comes together in one bowl with no mixer needed for the dry mix. Why This Recipe Works Almond flour is the whole base here, so there …
Pumpkin spice puppy chow is a no-bake snack mix of rice Chex, dark chocolate, peanut butter and pumpkin pie spice, ready in about 30 minutes. It makes about 9 cups, enough for 8 small servings, and it’s an easy party or fall treat. Why This Recipe Works The chocolate coating is a mix of dark …