March 26, 2010
Posted by: Mamma : Category:
Italian Dessert Recipes
Where do we start? There are so many great Italian dessert recipes and finding an authentic dessert recipe has been made much easier with the advent of the internet and people like Mamma sharing her trade secrets with her readers. When adding some of these recipes to Mamma’s website, we never realized how many dessert recipes she has stored in her memory. We have added a few and we are hoping to add many more….Mangiare and please share this site with your loved ones.
Italian Easter Dessert Recipes
Pane di Pasqua is a sweet Easter Bread and with Easter just around the corner we are delighted to highlight this recipe again. It is a bread and also a dessert.
Mustazzoli – Honey Bread
Italian Cookie Recipes
Biscotti Recipes – Crunchy
Keenoweele – Turnovers
Boconotti – Jam filled
Scawaylay – Pastry
Donuts – I know matto, matto what are donuts doing on an Italian Recipe site…Mamma’s friends have been asking for it so she obliged.
January 01, 2009
These tasty treats are called Scawaylay and are worth the effort. You will not find these Italian pastries in any North American Pastry shops or Bakeries so make the effort to perfect them.
Ingredients
4 eggs
4 tbsp olive oil
8 tbsp Sugar
1 tbsp Vanilla extract
2 tsp baking powder
Flour – enough to make a pie dough consistency.
Instructions
In a mixing bowl add eggs, olive oil, sugar, vanilla extract, baking powder and blend together. Slowly add flour until the consistency is same as pie dough.
Roll pastry with rolling pin until thin. Cut the pastry in strips and then twist. Deep fry, let cool and coat with honey. You may find it beneficial to have several plates to move your pastries to during each stage. Let stand and sprinkle with sugar…Mangiare!!

November 07, 2008
Ingredients:
5 eggs
1 cup sugar
1 cup vegetable oil
1 package Bertolini Lievito Vaniglinato (16 g)
4 cups flour
jam of choice
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Directions:
Beat eggs, add sugar and vegetable oil and mix until sugar is dissolved
add 1 package of Bertolini lievito vaniglinato
add flour little at a time until it is a consistency of cookie dough
spray cookie molds with non stick spray like Pam
stretch dough with fingers into mold
add 1/2 tsp of thick jam per mold
cover jam with dough and pinch edges
brush with eggs
place filled molds onto cookie sheet
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Cook at 500 deg F for 4-5 minutes. Keep close watch and remove when they are golden brown. These are Italian cookies Mamma style, Mangiare.
These Italian cookies are typically made at Christmas time and are filled with your favorite jams.
July 12, 2008
This recipe makes approximately 24 cookies.
Ingredients:
1 3/4 cup (425 ml)
2 tsp (10 ml)
3/4 cup (175 ml)
2
3/4 cup (175 ml)
1/3 cup (75 ml)
2 tsp (10 ml)
1/2 tsp (2 ml)
1 1/2 tsp (7 ml)
1
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flour
baking powder
whole unblanched almond
eggs
sugar
melted butter
vanilla
almond extract
grated orange rind
egg white lightly beaten
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Directions:
- In large bowl combine flour and baking powder.
- Stir in Almonds.
- Whisk eggs, sugar, butter, vanilla, almond extract and orange rind.
- Stir into flour mixture until soft, sticky dough forms.
- Transfer dough to lightly floured surface, form into smooth ball, divide in half, roll each into 12 inch long log. Place on ungreased baking sheet.
- brush tops with egg whites.
- bake in 350 F oven for 20 minutes. Remove and cool for 5 minutes on rack. Cut diagonally into 3/4 inch thick slices, stand cookies upright on baking sheet.
- bake sliced cookies for an additional 15-20 minutes or until golden brown.
- cool on rack … mangia!!
Biscotti in Italian means cookie and also means twice baked…
January 22, 2008
Posted by: Mamma : Category:
Italian Dessert Recipes
Thank you for becoming a FaceBook fan … here is a little something Mamma wants to give back to you.
It is a 53 page e-book which includes some great coffee and dessert recipes.
Feel free to provide this link to your friends so they too can download this free e-book.

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