Please meet the best Avocado Cake, fluffy like a pillow and draped in a luscious blueberry glaze. Made with creamy ricotta cheese, decadent dark chocolate chunks and smooth olive oil. Can you resist? Avocado Cake It's oh so good, creamy and decadent, a perfect blend of smooth extra virgin olive oil, creamy ricotta cheese and some avocado for both color and richness. To that, you add a handful of roughly chopped dark chocolate, not too much, just enough to give us a few chocolaty pockets at ...
Desserts
Italian Wedding Cookies Recipe
Easy and quick, this is the best Italian wedding Cookies recipe ever. Loaded with walnuts and hazelnuts and coated in fluffy powder sugar like a snowball, these Italian cookies melt in your mouth and are sure to steal everybody’s heart! Italian Wedding Cookies I know this is random you guys, and tough I have made and photographed more than 5 seasonal recipes this week, today I bring you the best Christmas Cookies, otherwise known as butterball or Russian Tea Cakes! Last night I started ...
Italian Lemon Olive Oil Cake Recipe with Berries & Mascarpone
The best Italian Lemon Olive Oil Cake of your dreams, dressed with creamy layers of whipped mascarpone cheese, lemon curd, a lemon blueberry sauce and sprinkled with fresh blackberries. A Tiramisu like berry mascarpone cake but without coffee, simply Amazing! Berry Mascarpone Italian Lemon Olive Oil Cake I present to you the first official cake recipe on CiaoFlorentina blog and the only cake recipe you need. It now goes by Florentina's Cake and I'm so excited about this one which is big, ...
Italian Lemon Ricotta Cookies Recipe
Easy Italian Lemon Ricotta Cookies recipe made with olive oil (no butter) and creamy ricotta cheese. Crispy on the bottom with a soft and fluffy center covered in a luscious lemon glaze and poppy seed sprinkle. Lemon Ricotta Cookies If you've been looking for easy but timeless Italian cookies look no further, because this lemon ricotta cookies recipe will deliver like a true boss! One of the most popular classic Italian Christmas cookies rivaled only by the wedding cookies, amazingly ...
Homemade Popsicle Recipe with Mixed Berries
This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of The a2 Milk Company™ for IZEA. All opinions are 100% mine. | For this homemade popsicle recipe you will need 6 popsicle molds + 6 popsicle wooden sticks | Let’s talk about homemade popsicles for a second, because it is the season for cold snacks that are wholesome and delicious and good for you; and this popsicle recipe loaded with mixed berries fits the bill perfectly. Really, anyone can make these popsicles, you just need some popsicle ...
Berry Tiramisu Trifle Recipe
Easy, no alcohol, no bake berry tiramisu trifle made with Mascarpone cream cheese, lady fingers and a blackberry blueberry puree. A decadent show stopper dessert perfect for Mother’s day, Valentine’s or a spring garden party! Initially I came up with this recipe out of guilt, as I always make the Italian Tiramisu Cheesecake for myself. But the BatMan is not fond of coffee at all. So I came up with a caffeine free, berry loaded version to keep everyone happy, including the kids. Alcohol ...
Lemon Blueberry Bread Recipe
Lemon Blueberry Bread - an easy Italian style quick bread recipe from scratch. Loaded with blueberries, made with fruity olive oil, rich ricotta cheese and dressed in a decadent lemon glaze. Best Lemon Blueberry Bread In case you find yourself with a bucket of blueberries this season, I’m pretty sure this is the best thing you can do with them. A crazy delicious, soft and moist treat to go with your morning coffee. Blueberry Bread Ingredients Olive Oil - a light and fruity ...
~ Chia Seed Breakfast Pudding Recipe ~ (Rainbow Pudding)
The most fun chia seed breakfast pudding that looks like a rainbow but made with all organic ingredients that are good for you ! Who knew breakfast could be as much fun as this pretty and guilt free chia seed breakfast pudding ? All my favorite chia seed breakfast recipes in one glass, like a unicorn rainbow pudding ! Believe it or not, I actually had 2 more flavors ready, a strawberry one and this vanilla one. Problem was that I had no room left to layer them up. And you know I wasn’t even ...
Blueberry Muffin Cake Recipe Video
How to make a simple lemon blueberry muffin cake at home, perfect for breakfast, a birthday and heck even a wedding If I get to choose. Instead of the usual streusel topping you can actually whip up a quick lemon glaze to pour all over the top. I did both, because It was the weekend and I’ve heard calories don’t count until Monday. So there, extra glaze and streusel for everyone! In a nutshell this is my cake like version of the blueberry ricotta muffins, because Ricotta and Olive Oil run my ...
Chocolate Covered Coconut Bars Recipe ( Easy )
Easy, No Bake 5 Ingredients Chocolate Covered Coconut Bars! Happy first week of 2016, this the week that I’ll be covering everything in dark chocolate starting with these chocolate covered coconut bars! Thankfully i have plenty of really nice dark chocolate leftover from the holidays that is begging to get melted. I randomly picked up a bag of organic shredded coconut last time I went to the market, which is the reason for the tray of chocolate covered coconut bars in the fridge. I was ...