Torta Pasqualina or Italian Easter Pie is a quintessential Italian specialty to celebrate Easter! To celebrate Easter, preparing a traditional, classic Italian Easter Pie (Torta Pasqualina) is a must for most Italians. This is truly one big mama of a torta/pie. Certainly so massive, time-consuming, and expensive in ingredients, that it is saved only for special celebrations such ...
Cakes + Pies
Italian Easter Food
If you really want to have something delicious and unique offered on your Easter buffet table, here's a list of some of the best Italian Easter Foods that you can find on the web. I've done the search for you so all you have to do is click on the links of the Easter specialities that you'd like to buy (not from me) from Amazon. I have to tell you that I just placed my order for Italian ...
15 BEST Cranberry Recipes
Are you as crazy for cranberries as I am? Maybe or maybe not. Well, I'm just nuts in love with cranberries and have been ever since taking my first bite into my mother's delicious cranberry bread that she baked every Christmas for gifts to family and friends. My mom was a generous soul with her cooking and baking. I don't know many people who do that anymore during ...
Carrot Cake with Praline Filling and Cream Cheese Frosting
"What do we have to eat that's sweet?" asked 'Mr. Meat and Potatoes' Bill. "Uh, nothing hon. Would you like me to bake a cake?" "Oh YEA!" "How about a layered carrot cake? With a praline filling?" He was speechless! Sweets and football games on TV will quiet this man faster than anything I know. Off to the kitchen I scurry. This cake took one ...
Italian Apple Torta (Torta di Mele)
When you think of Italian cuisine and the beautiful Italian countryside, many foods come to mind: pasta, garlic, Parmesan cheese, balsamic vinegar, prosciutto, lemons, and olives . . . but few of us outside of Italy think of apples when we consider the foods from Italy! Yet Italy is the top producer of apples in all of Europe and the 5th apple-producing country in the ...