biscuits – Ale Gambini

December 17, 2015February 1, 2016Desserts Holidays & Celebrations Quote

Dulce De Leche Christmas Tree Cookies

Christmas is approaching and for this year I decided to prepare delicious Italian festive cookies with a South American twist. For the cookie dough I used my favorite Italian shortbread recipe : Frolla Montata. I shaped the cookies with the OXO GOOD GRIPS COOKIE PRESS using the Christmas Tree disk. This outstanding cookie press comes with 12 stainless […]

November 19, 2015Baking Bread Holidays & Celebrations Quote

Buttermilk Biscuits

Only one week left until Thanksgiving 2015 and I can’t wait to bake my buttermilk biscuits for family and friends. Buttermilk Biscuits are small, round, flaky breads leavened with baking powder and/or soda, widely eaten in North America and some part of Canada. They can be served for breakfast, lunch, tea-time and dinner. Easy to […]

January 26, 2015March 18, 2015Desserts

Biscottini Di Novara

Biscottini di Novara are lightweight cookies from the beautiful ancient city of Novara (Piedmont, Italy).They have an airy and crumbly texture, a rectangular shape with rounded corners and a golden color. The only three ingredients used to prepare these delicious cookies are : wheat flour, sugar and eggs. Biscottini di Novara are extremely light and […]

June 29, 2013June 29, 2013Desserts

Dolci Morsi Al Nebbiolo (Sweet Bites Nebbiolo)

“Dolci Morsi al Nebbiolo are wholemeal biscuits, a structure of puff pastry, but totally devoid of added fat, so without any seasoning like butter, margarine, lard and various oils. The flour is Sbrulen Bio, a farmer who sows and grinds near my house, plus organic and stone ground, then add the sugar, a bit of […]

June 4, 2013June 25, 2013Desserts

Margheritine of Stresa

I love this little biscuits!!! I have memories of them since I was teenager and I used to spend my summer holidays in Stresa, a charming town on the Piemonte shores of Lake Maggiore. The baker Pietro Antonio Bolongario invented these treats for the Princess Margaret of Savoy who later became Queen Margherita. She liked them […]