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Best Pumpkin Bread Recipe with Chocolate & Caramel (Easy)

Best Pumpkin Bread Recipe

September 28, 2016 by Florentina 7 Comments

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 ...

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Olive Oil Cake Recipe with Chocolate, Avocado & Blueberry Glaze

Blueberry Glaze Avocado Cake Recipe

June 19, 2016 by Florentina 12 Comments

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 ...

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Italian Lemon Olive Oil Cake Recipe

Italian Lemon Olive Oil Cake Recipe with Berries & Mascarpone

June 5, 2016 by Florentina 149 Comments

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 ...

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Blueberry Lemon Olive Oil Bread Recipe

Blueberry Lemon Bread Recipe

March 4, 2016 by Florentina 49 Comments

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 ...

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Mascarpone Olive Oil Banana Bread Bundt Cake Recipe

Banana Bread Cake

November 12, 2015 by Florentina 6 Comments

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 ...

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Espresso Pumpkin Walnut Bread

Espresso Pumpkin Nut Bread Recipe

September 4, 2014 by Florentina 2 Comments

An Espresso Pumpkin Nut Bread Recipe for the coffee and pumpkin lovers of the world. Let's get caffeinated!  Wake up and smell the coffee, and the pumpkins, because this the season to pumpkin everything. That's it! No more tomatoes, but please don't quote me on that one tough... You know how I roll.. Brace yourselves for pumpkin lattes, pumpkin breads, pumpkin stews and soups and plain old pumpkin out of the can. What ..? It's good for you, trust me! Have you ever tried putting it on your ...

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Ricotta Banana Nut Bread Recipe

Ricotta Banana Nut Bread Recipe

June 18, 2014 by Florentina 21 Comments

The ultimate, best banana nut bread recipe of all time, upgraded with fluffy creamy ricotta cheese and candied walnuts. Easy and super moist, made with 2 bananas, a smooth extra virgin olive oil, granulated and brown sugars, nutty candied walnuts or pecans and heavenly whole milk ricotta cheese. As good as grandma’s and better than any cafes! Made without a mixer, just 2 bowls and a spatula. You know I don't always bake, but when I do it's probably something with Italian ricotta cheese ...

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