Os Italian doces are part of the country's gastronomic fame. Check out famous recipes to celebrate the Chocolate Day, celebrated on July 7th.
This date was chosen to celebrate the much-loved chocolate because it was around July 7th that it arrived at the European continent, in the 15th century. Since then, it has been used in different ways in the cuisine of countries in the region.
The most popular Italian sweets
The most famous Italian sweet, Tiramisu, has several interpretations, but chocolate is always among the main ingredients in its recipe. Furthermore, this dessert has café, cheese e mascarpone .
Another very popular sweet in the country is ice cream made in the Italian style, gelato. The recipe calls for simple ingredients, which form a liquid base, composed of water, milk, sugar and the desired flavor. And, if the flavor is chocolate, the options are very varied.
Sweet delight in the shape of a salami
An Italian sweet much appreciated in the regions of Emilia-Romagna quality Piedmont It's chocolate salami. This dessert is made of chocolate with pieces of biscuit and, as the name suggests, shaped like a salami. The recipe includes ingredients such as butter, eggs, nuts, almonds e hazelnuts.
Chocolate salami gave rise to another sweet, called Italian straw. It is a reinterpretation of the original, with the difference of taking condensed milk in your recipe.
Dream cousin, full of chocolate
O donuts It's an Italian sweet cousin of the Brazilian dream. Its dough is very similar, including another sweet, which could be its North American cousin, the donuts, but without the little hole in the middle. Bomboloni is usually filled with pastry cream, but it is delicious with chocolate ou hazelnut cream.
Finally, another famous Italian sweet that can be prepared with chocolate is cannon (cannoli, plural). This sweet is a tube-shaped fried dough, which can be filled with a chocolate-based cream and several other flavors, such as vanilla, candied fruits, lemon, wine and whatever else your imagination dictates.
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