Easy and quick lemon Greek yogurt cake / bread recipe with a citrusy bite from fresh lemon zest balanced by the sweet aromas of vanilla and powdered sugar finish. Lovely sprinkled with some healthy chopped pistachios, a few berries or some of these balsamic roasted figs. Whatever tickles your taste buds. There’s no butter in my recipe, as always I go to my healthy fat of choice: the extra virgin olive oil, forever and ever! You can bake this in a simple loaf pan for nice coffee shop ...
Olive Oil Cakes
Best Pumpkin Bread Recipe
The best pumpkin bread recipe from scratch loaded with dark chocolate chips, organic canned pumpkin puree, smooth extra virgin olive oil ( no butter ), then covered in sea salt caramel and toasted coconut. Like a Samoa style decadent cake my friends! Easy like Sunday morning!You can of course keep it simple and use store bought caramel or make your own, I’ll include instructions below for the homemade version. I used a mix of coconut and granulated cane sugars, simply because I love ...
Easy Pumpkin Muffins Recipe with Orange Glaze & Mascarpone
The best easy pumpkin muffins you will ever make, extra fluffy with a little pocket of mascarpone cheese inside and draped in a decadent orange glaze. Are you ready for pumpkin everything kids ? Yeah, me either, but I made these easy pumpkin muffins like a month or so ago, and been waiting for a sweater kind of day to share them. And today is that kind of day, so forget whatever I said I was gonna post next. Today you are getting easy pumpkin muffins stuffed with mascarpone cheese and covered ...
Blueberry Glaze Avocado Cake Recipe
Fluffy like a pillow and draped in a luscious blueberry glaze, this avocado cake recipe is made with creamy ricotta cheese, decadent dark chocolate chunks and smooth olive oil. Can you resist? I have a confession to make: fragrant Olive Oil + Ricotta Cheese make my world go around, for reals!Because one more olive oil cake recipe, drizzled with blueberry glaze, makes the world a better place you know..? Well, at least for the time we spend eating it anyways! A riff on my old Ricotta ...
Italian Lemon Olive Oil Cake Recipe with Berries & Mascarpone
The best Italian lemon olive oil cake of your dreams, dressed festively with layers of whipped mascarpone cheese, lemon curd, a honey lemon blueberry sauce and finished with juicy, fresh blackberries. Like a Tiramisu, but even better!This Italian lemon olive oil cake is Everything and a bucket of organic blackberries! Today I bring to you the first official cake recipe on Ciao Florentina. I don’t even know where to really start, because I am so excited about this you guys. I mean, yours ...
Blueberry Lemon Bread Recipe
Homemade blueberry lemon bread from scratch, made with smooth olive oil, a creamy richness from ricotta cheese and a decadent lemon glaze!I clearly can't help it you guys: this moist blueberry lemon bread made withe the smoothest olive oil has taken over my life. Oh yeah, and ricotta cheese of course, but we won't talk about that today, because by now it would be the same as saying I'm baking with flour. Duhh! Ricotta cheese + olive oil (no butter), you are the greatest! Don't you ever ...
Orange Olive Oil Cake with Red Beet and Ricotta
This orange olive oil cake is a celebration of oranges and beets, and the magic that olive oil and ricotta bring to a breakfast cake or quick bread. Organic beauty for breakfast ! To make this orange olive oil cake you need this Blood Orange Olive Oil | + 9” spring form pan like this ( similar style here ) First of all, let me tell you about the struggle between calling this an Orange Olive Oil Cake, a Blood Orange Olive Oil Cake, or a Red Beet Blood Orange and Ricotta Olive Oil Cake. My libra ...
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 ...
Banana Bread Cake
An easy, to die for banana bread cake filled with creamy Mascarpone cheese and covered in a silky lemon glaze! Ok, so Is it banana bread or cake ? What's the difference? Well, it is a cake like banana bread technically. Like a bread but way better. Like the best banana bread cake I’ve ever made, because on top of the moist ricotta cheese dough, it also has little pockets of Mascarpone cheese all throughout. Killer!And just because it is the holiday season, I also whipped up a ...
Easy Cranberry Bread Recipe Video
The best quick and easy cranberry bread recipe, loaded with fresh cranberries, ricotta cheese, vanilla and extra virgin olive oil, then finished with a crispy streusel topping.All you need on your Thanksgiving and Christmas table is this to die for, fluffy homemade sweet bread. I don’t think it lasts for more than 20 minutes after it comes out of the oven, so plan accordingly. Super simple to make, all you need is two bowls, a whisk and a spatula to fold everything together (Watch Video ...