chocolate chips – Ale Gambini

October 30, 2017October 30, 2017Desserts Holidays & Celebrations

Spider Web Chocolate Cake…Happy Halloween!!!

Time to put the costume on and celebrate the most colorful and playful time of the year…HALLOWEEN! Since I’ll dress up as a spider web, I will match my costume with a decadent spider web chocolate cake. I’ve decorated my favorite Italian chocolate cake, TENERINA CAKE, with melted chocolate to create the spider web and […]

November 30, 2016December 8, 2016Desserts HOW TO

HOW TO Make Chocolate Rolls

Learn HOW TO Make Chocolate Rolls simply following my super easy video recipe. You’ll only need three ingredients : puff pastry, chocolate chips and egg yolk. Chocolate rolls are mini size puff pastry rolls filled with mini chocolate chips. I’ve used the semi-sweet chocolate chips but you can fill them with your favorite chocolate chips […]

December 9, 2015December 9, 2015Desserts Holidays & Celebrations Quote

Chocolate Chips Canestrelli

Canestrelli are traditional old-fashioned Italian shortbread cookies from Piedmont and Liguria regions (Italy). They come flower-shaped and covered with plenty of confectioners’ sugar. The secret for baking authentic Canestrelli is to hard boil the egg yolks. I gave to the traditional recipe a chocolatey twist adding mini-chocolate chips to the cookie dough. Enjoy these […]

September 24, 2015September 24, 2015Baking Bread

Baking Bread Plus: Episode #13 : Pain Au Chocolat 🇫🇷

The baking adventure continues with a new episode of Baking Bread Plus. Follow my step-by-step video recipe and learn how to make deeeeeelicious Pain Au Chocolat. Now on Vimeo and You Tube. Bon Appétit !!! Pain Au Chocolat literally chocolate bread is a buttery, flaky, Vienna-style pastry filled with dark chocolate pieces. Pain Au Chocolat is […]

March 27, 2015March 27, 2015Desserts

Zuccotto Meringato

Recipe and photo by Ale Gambini – BreadLoveAndDreams.com The idea of this scrumptious dessert came to my mind thinking about three of my favorite elements of the Italian Art of Pastry : Pan di Spagna, Zuccotto and Meringata. Pan di Spagna is the traditional Italian sponge cake used as a base for many Italian desserts. […]