Almond Pie-Birthday Cake

Cake with Almonds, syrupy and flavored with liqueur. Whitened & grated almonds make this almond pie very tasty. The syrup at the end (and in the right amount) flavors it wonderfully and makes it tender, soft and delicious.

We made it a Cake / Birthday Cake because… because we like it that way… and to simplify the procedures we sprinkled it with a little icing sugar. Alternatively we can put almond slivers on top or just grated almonds.

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work: 20′

time: 1h:00′

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Amigthalota-Greek Almond Biscuits

A very easy dessert with minimal fats, without butter & with minimal ingredients. Almonds ground as the main ingredient and egg whites, beaten in a meringue. Flavored with mastic of Chios Island and cherry liqueur. Their top is decorated with almond flakes and a candied cherry to give them their color, to make them more attractive.
One of the best, traditional delicacies is the almond cookies. The shape, as well as their aromas, vary from place to place. Almonds biscuits are generally made from whitened ground almonds or marzipan, egg whites meringue, and sometimes even semolina. They have pear, rosette, small hill, ball, crescent, etc. shapes.
Sometimes they are sprinkled with powdered sugar and become pure white, and sometimes they remain with the roasted almond crumb visible. The most famous are probably those from the island of Andros, where there is a traditional local industry. The Almond Biscuits of Andros are flavored with rose water.
In all of the Dodecanese, the Cyclades & the islands of the Northeast Aegean, Almond Biscuits are a classic delicacy offered at weddings and engagements…
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work: 20′

time: 1h:00′

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Dates & Nuts Roll

An easy, simple and delicious sweet recipe for these rolls of dates and nuts, flavored with orange and cloves and sprinkled with grated pistachios. It is a healthy and tasty sweet, fat-free and sugar-free, but the dates give all the sweetness to these rolls, since they are already a sweet temptation.
Sweet rolls with dill and nuts have their origins in India where they are made and eaten a lot.
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work: 30′

time: 2h:30′

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Edible Christmas Tree

Cheerful, festive and very childish like the hands that helped to make this cake and built it as they like. Colorful & optimistic & snowy with coconut & Christmas lights colored candies & with a caramel star at its top, with lots of joy!
Dedicated to all children, young or old, Christmas Celebrations - the latest and most impressive of the year - shine in their eyes and soul, full of expectation and joy! From our home to yours:
Merry Christmas!
Health, Love, Happiness to Everyone!

work: 15′

time: 1h:00′

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Savoiardi Biscuits, Mahallebi & Jam Dessert

Light cool dessert. It is made so easily and gives pleasure with few calories. Share it generously, it costs very little and is done in very little time. The fragrant and light Mahallebi cream is the predominant flavor.
This sweet is a tender memory of Mom's preparations and it has always been served on her own mom's vintage saucers. Three generations coexist over a simple yet so beloved refrigerator sweet.
The blue representations on the white of the dishes, with a romantic figure of two lovers in front of a beautiful house in the countryside, magnify my gaze perhaps more than that sweet!
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work: 10′

time: 4h:00′

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Homemade Mandarin Liqueur-DIY

Fine fragrances, delicate flavors, yellow color and very easy to prepare in the house, without effort or particular difficulties. Allow time to work -it needs time to get ripe- to become a digestible aromatic liqueur with extracts of mandarin and clove.
Ripe fresh tangerines -winter is their season- organic farming with vibrant, juicy flesh, which will give the liqueur the necessary ingredients to make delicious tasty with subtle notes of alcohol.
Serve as an aperitif before a meal or as a digestif after a sumptuous meal!
Cheers!

work: 15′

time: 1 μήνας

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Apple & Pear Tart with Stevia

This unique Apple-Pear tart is based on a large amount of fruit in relation to the tiny amount of beaten mixture. Do not be surprised by the amount of puree. There will be perfect, in my view, results. These ratios give us a light in taste, texture, and tart apple calories.
A quick and delicious way to consume fruits, which accumulate in our fridge, and enjoy a very tasty dessert for our Sunday breakfast.
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work: 15′

time: 45′

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Dessert with Caramel Frosting

Summer sweet of the refrigerator, with three different layers. Each layer adds her own taste in this dynamic multilevel sweet.
A biscuit hazelnut base and chocolate drops. A layer of vanilla cream, with its wonderful velvety texture and aroma of vanilla. And finally a caramel glaze as a capstone for the completion of the sweet and which will richly reward us with its unique flavor and excellent tastiness. A caramel temptation!
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work: 1h:00′

time: 12h:00′

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Nocino Walnut Liqueur

Nocino is an Italian liqueur with very dark color and made from small green walnuts while still unripe.
There are many recipes for this liqueur, with several days of exposure to sun, etc. I preferred a short and simple process with the only difference that in this case you let it for 6-7 months to mature the flavor and bring out the aromas.
Adding lemon peel reduces the astringent taste of the liqueur. If you have easy access to walnut trees, try to make this lovely, traditional, homemade liqueur.
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work: 30′

time: 24h:00′

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Prickly Pear Liqueur

Beautiful, bright, clear orange color for this, no ordinary liquor, prickly pear liqueur. A quite rare liqueur, since there are few "brave", which will deal with the Prickly Pears.
Prickly pears found in nature and can be cut with great care, but there are in supermarkets packaged in transparent packages whose spines have been removed, and is the safest and easiest way to treat and remove their peel.
Cheers!

work: 30′

time: 5 ημέρες

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Tiramisu

Tiramisù is one of the most popular Italian desserts in the world. It is made with savoyards, strong espresso coffee and mascarpone cheese …
It is said that its place of origin is the Veneto region and specifically the city of Treviso, although many have objections to this …
But that which we are interested in is to enjoy a delicious dessert, of which there are many variations and anywhere only friends!
A classic recipe is one that I follow for years and really all these that have tried it like it a lot. The current proposal is a small "herecy" since it adds cinnamon biscuits. Was this desire, which, however, gave a touch aromatic sweet cinnamon, going with coffee.
There is a procedure of preparation of different materials, which have to be prepared separately and then joined together.
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work: 45′

time: 1h:45′

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Kernels Cherry Liqueur

Fragrant liqueur, amber clear color and light scent of bitter almonds and cherries. Drinking, either as an aperitif or as a digestif is sure to leave you with very good impressions. A liqueur that gladdens the eye and the palate.
The process is simple. Put the kernels of cherries in alcohol and wait a few days. Time will work in favor of its creation.
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work: 20′

time: 4 weeks

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Berries Trifle with Sponge Cake

Glasses filled of soft trifle with sponge cake base, velvety mascarpone cream and berries. A confection with a strong sour taste of fruit, soft sweet texture of whipped cream/ mascarpone and delicious cake instead of classical selection of biscuits.
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work: 1h:00′

time: 1h:30′

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Apple-Molasses Upside-Down Cake

Apple cake, upside down with a strong presence of the aroma and taste of the heady molasses. The Blueberry's dark jam & molasses give shades of deep purple, tones.
We pick apples red, hard, unripe for best results in taste but also in appearance.
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work: 20′

time: 1h:10′

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Apricot & Coconut Truffles

Tempting Truffles, festive, aromatic, and a mouthful! Dried apricots with a slightly sourish taste, grated desiccated coconut, orange zest, and rum are those Ingredients with which to build fast and simple Christmas Holiday Truffles. Bathed in white chocolate for extra flavor and style.
Enjoy them, treat with them!
Happy remaining holidays!

work: 45′

time: 1h:45′

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New Year's Cake 2014

Happy 2014!

The custom of Pie is very old, has its roots in a feast that our ancestors in ancient Greece did of "Saturn", the Roman "Saturnalia".
Greek Tradition has various sweet or savory tastes. A key common feature is that all placed inside a coin, usually common, but in some cases gold Constantinato (florin coin) or silver.
The most prevalent, and perhaps the most beloved, is in the form of cake with various spices, nuts, with candied fruit etc. Often written on the pie is the number of the new year.
This year's New Year cake is a delicious cake, sprinkled with lots of icing sugar, almonds and walnuts, and very intense aroma of orange. It is inflatable and very fluffy, white and soft crumb.
Try it!

work: 30′

time: 1h:30′

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Double Chocolate Cake

Double chocolate, double and triple sinful delicacy.
Despite much chocolate and cocoa the flavors and textures leave a sense of light chocolate cake.
The process is a bit complicated because the preparation of three different layers but with planning specific procedures, step by step, gets quite easy.
A chocolate cake for the base and two different chocolate creams, one for the glaze and one for the filling are what compose it.
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work: 1h:00′

time: 1h:45′

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Chocolate Salami

Chocolate Salami without eggs, with chocolate and nuts. Favorite of the younger among us and int the storyline from childhood many others.
It's delicious, but high calorie dessert so we consume a small amount and share the extra.
Chocolate will always remain a favorite, calorific, high fat food. We must not forget …

wokr: 20′

time: 2h:20′

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Lingonberry Torte

Refrigerator Torte with sponge fingers -savoiardi biscuits- pastry cream, white chocolate, cream cheese and lingonberry jam. A tasty combination of ingredients, light taste and as sweet as needed. Everything that suggests to have a successful outcome for a tasty delicious sweet treat.
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work: 1h:00′

time: 12h:00′

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Tiramisu Bread

Cake flavored mascarpone, chocolate flavor, taste and aroma of coffee Tiramisu!
Imprisoned, our favorite delicacy of the classic Tiramisu in another version.
Mascarpone cheese, yogurt, cocoa and espresso coffee to combine it with a genuine breakfast, refreshing coffee a relaxed Sunday at home.
Enjoy!

work: 20′

time: 1h:10′

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