Baking

Sicilian Olive Oil Cookies
Olive Oil Cookies from Southern Italy

A delicate olive oil is the essential ingredient for a pastry naturally sweetened with malt and enriched by the scent of Sicilian blood orange juice.

Baked Camembert Foccaccia
Focaccia with Baked Camembert, Dukkah and Honey

Crusty freshly baked bread with oozy warm camembert, drizzled with sweet honey and topped with a sprinkle of sea salt and dukkah.

3-Ingredient Baked Honey Mustard Chicken

It’s all about easy recipes here, especially when it’s a recipe you can easily learn and memorize. This honey mustard chicken is a perfect candidate for that – only 3 main ingredients, plus a handful of (optional) added extras.

Italian Holiday Table: Mushroom and Sausage Polenta with Baci Chocolate Cake

Liven up your holiday spread with a rich, slow cooked sausage and mushroom dish served over creamy polenta. Finish the meal with a fudgy chocolate cake topped with Baci chocolates.

Gluten Free Mini Pumpkin Cake

Whip up an easy, gluten free mini pumpkin cake loaded with warm spices and flavors that is perfect with a warm cup of tea and shared with just a few friends.

Thick and Chewy Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookies

When all you want is a chocolate chip cookie, but you tell you shouldn’t, well, thanks to this recipe, you can. Have as many as you want with this recipe, because it’s thick, chewy, and yes, vegan!

Culinary Tips: Homemade Pie Crust 101

Know why various ingredients and techniques and approaches are proselytized, and why someone might choose one ingredient over another or why all recipes say to take a certain step. Different methods will work better or worse for various people, and you’ll have to find what works best for you.

Sweet Harvest Pumpkin Scones and Salted Caramel Glaze

Sweet with a hint of salt and made with a warm autumn tea, these sweet harvest pumpkin scones are easy to make and drizzled with a perfect salted caramel glaze.

Olive Tapenade Foccaccia Recipe
Focaccia Bread with Olive Tapenade

Focaccia bread topped with a salty, savory olive tapenade. This impressive bread comes together in a couple of hours.

Garlic Focaccia with Caramelized Onions

Grilled garlic and caramelized onions gives this bread rich, smokey flavors that is perfect on its own or for a gourmet sandwich bread.

Baked Glazed Blueberry Donuts

These baked and glazed donuts are a better alternative to the fried ones for someone who enjoys eating donuts for breakfast.

Crème Fraiche Cake with Limoncello Glaze

A delicious cake with bright lemon flavor, a light, fluffy crumb, served with zesty Limoncello glaze and garnished with lemon thyme leaves.

Mákos Kifli - Hungarian Poppyseed Cream Filled Cookies
Mákos Kifli – Hungarian Poppyseed Cream Filled Cookies

In spirit of simpleness, bake these Hungarian crescent cookies filled with poppy-seed cream and celebrate a cozy afternoon in your kitchen.

The Ultimate Chocolate Cake from The Chocolate Room
The Ultimate Chocolate Cake from The Chocolate Room

Step inside the new cookbook from Brooklyn’s The Chocolate Room and take a bite of their sinfully rich chocolate cake.

5 Ingredient Classic Crème Brûlée

The perfect crème brûlée has a soft creamy custard filling and a crisp caramelized sugar topping. This classic dessert looks rather complicated but it is simple to make.

Half-Dipped Almond Butter Cookies in Cacao Nibs and Fleur de Sel

Unless it’s a macaron, almond cookies barely get any attention in the cookie world, but they should! Try this cookie recipe made with almond butter and dipped in cacao nibs and fleur de sel. It will be almost too beautiful to eat.

Double-Buckwheat Double-Chocolate Cookie

Soft and slightly-sweet double chocolate roll-out cookies made with buckwheat for a nutty flavor and extra texture. Can also be made in slice-and-bake form!

Golden Rosemary Focaccia Bread

Chewy on the inside, crisp on the outside, this focaccia requires a few rises, but the time is worth it for a delicious Italian bread.

Pumpkin Cheesecake Crumble

Pumpkin cheesecake crumble bars. The name says it all! These bars are full of the best flavors and topped with a crumbly oat topping! The sweet sour cream layer adds a tang that goes well with the pumpkin cheesecake. You will love these!

Marzipan Blondie Bites
Addictive Marzipan Blondie Bites

Perfect for indefinite snacking, or for those times when life throws you things that knock you down and you’re yet to find the strength to get back up.

White Chocolate Muffins

They’re soft, made with olive oil, and just sweet enough. Whip up a batch of these white chocolate muffins for a perfect snack or breakfast to-go.

Torta Con Le Mele – Apple Cake from Northern Italy

A quick and yummy apple cake from the Trentino-Alto Adige, Friuli-Venezia Giulia and Veneto regions of Northeastern Italy

Cardamom and Coconut Granola

Granola is very popular breakfast and snack food which is also super easy to make. In fact, making homemade granola is healthier and tastier than store-bought version. In addition to a healthy breakfast and snack option, granola is very popular food choice to carry on treks/trails and camping since it’s so lightweight yet nutritious and filling.

Pumpkin Cranberry Breakfast Cookies

These pumpkin cranberry breakfast cookies make for a great breakfast on-the-go.

Pineapple Glazed Carrot Muffins

This Carrot Pineapple Muffins that are topped with macadamia nuts and a pineapple glaze is inspired by the tropical flavors of the Hawaiian island of Kauai.

Plum Frangipane Tart

The end of the season is here, so make the most of stone fruits like plums. Try this frangipane tart recipe to enjoy with a cup of tea.

Pumpkin Chocolate Cake: Torta Di Zucca E Cioccolato

Nutty, chocolate cake is filled with delicious pumpkin for a sweet, festive fall treat common in Northern Italy.

Gluten Free Pumpkin Bread

With delicious fall flavors of banana, walnuts, and pumpkin, this quick bread is gluten free and just as delicious as wheat flour recipes.

Parmigiano Crackers

Enjoy particularly sophisticated and delicious crackers when Parmigiano cheese is added to the dough.

Flourless Chocolate Hazelnut Cake

Incredibly light and soft for a nut cake, this flourless chocolate hazelnut torte will be the winner of any dessert table.

Altomare’s Wine Taralli

An authentic recipe for this great Italian snack food originating from the region of Naples. Altomare’s Wine Taralli are the real deal!

Baked Funfetti Donuts

These donuts take on the flavors and colors of festive funfetti cake, but they are so much better because they are homemade, cakey, sweet, and even paleo. Dive into these glazed confections.

Cheese and Fig Crostata

Celebrate fig season with this Italian crostata loaded with favorite cheeses and sweet figs.

Gluten Free Apricot Ginger Crumble

Dig into these sweet crumble bars loaded with apricot and a touch of spicy ginger flavor for an easy gluten free treat.

How to Make Croissants at Home

Making croissants at home takes some dedication and practice, but once you get the hang of it – it’s incredibly rewarding.

Nutella Cherry Tart

Nutella Cherry Tart is the only picnic dessert you need in your life this summer.

Homemade Digestive Cookies

Whip up a batch of these paleo digestive biscuits and then pour yourself a cup of tea and enjoy.

Double Berry Cake

Use the fresh blackberries and blueberries of summer in this whole wheat and almond flour double berry cake.

How to make Grissini
How to Make Grissini – Italian Breadsticks

Simple to make and quite delicious, Grissini, the Italian breadsticks are a blank slate just waiting to be enhanced.

Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Brownie Tart

If you have a sweet tooth, this recipe is for you. A fudgy brownie tart is topped with peanut butter chocolate chip cookie dough and baked to gooey perfection.

Oregano Pistachio Cakes

Craving a savory snack cake? These small oregano and pistachio cakes with Pecorino cheese are just the thing. As we dive into fall, enjoy alongside a bowl of soup.

Fennel Taralli Bread

A crunchy crust and a chewy inside, taralli are similar to a classic bagel. Try this savory bread spiced with fennel for delicious flavor.

Elegant Dulce de Leche Cake

With dulce de leche swirled into the cake batter and the Swiss meringue frosting, this buttery cake is truly fit for an elegant celebration.

Lemon Blueberry Cake

With a classic flavor combination, this lemon blueberry cake is made just like a poke cake to let the sweet blueberry filling mingle with the soft lemon cake. Frost in a cheesecake icing and you will be set.

Key Lime Coconut Cookies: From The Ritz-Carlton Sarasota

The Florida-inspired cookie is quite addictive with a light and cake-y texture and a sweet coating of zesty glaze.

Chocolate Fudge Cake

This rich, chocolate fudge cake will hit the spot with its gooey texture and deep chocolate flavor.

Easy Gluten Free Brownies

With only five ingredeints needed, you could be whipping up these easy gluten free brownies in no time. Top with marshmallows for a fun, s’mores-like treat.

Coconut Crusted Taro Fries

Ever heard of baked taro fries? They’re about to become your new favorite vegetable dish.

Olive Rosemary Focaccia

Olive rosemary focaccia is a real treat. Fragrant rosemary and salty olives lend a deep and rich flavor to this bread that can be enjoyed at anytime.

No-Knead Goat Cheese Focaccia with Pistachios

Get your hands on this recipe for a quick Italian bread with fresh rosemary and a creamy-crunchy pair of toppings.

Chocolate Key Lime Pie Bars

With a salty and sweet Biscoff cookie crust and a tart key lime pie layer, these bars are dipped in a chocolate for a refreshing summer treat.

Italian Margherita cake

Try a classic Italian cake, named after its similar appearance to the margherita, or daisy, flower. A hearty slice is best served with milk or tea.

Italy’s Altamura Bread

Altamura Bread is a rustic bread from the Italian provence of Bari. Semolina Flour gives it a distinct texture, flavor and aroma that is unique to Italy.

Brownie Bottom Chocolate Pie

Swap out a usual pie crust of a French silk with a layer of brownies and you have a brownie bottom chocolate pie, a chocolate lover’s dream.

White Chocolate Cookie Butter Cookies

With delicious cinnamon cookie butter flavor, these soft, cookies are loaded with sweet flavor and creamy white chocolate chunks.

Pistachio Peach Cake

A soft, summer peach cake is baked with chopped pistachios and ice in a simple cream cheese frosting with more nuts on top. It’s simple, but simply delicious.

Strawberry Ricotta Tart with Balsamic Glaze

Homemade ricotta fills a simple tart shell before being topped with sweet summer berries and a tangy balsamic glaze.

White Chocolate Coconut Cake

Three soft layers of coconut cake are stacked and slathered with sweet, soft white chocolate coconut frosting and then topped with coconut chips.

Limoncello Cheesecake With Fresh Lemon Curd

Limoncello cheesecake with fresh lemon curd combines a bold lemon flavor with a light, airy texture. It’s a great way to take the edge off the summer heat.

Skillet Focaccia

Quick, easy, no fuss and only one dish. Skillet focaccia is a blank slate dish that can take on any components you can think of, with barely any hassle.