An authentic, easy Sicilian cannoli cream filling recipe / dip, I picked up while in Sicily last summer, served with chocolate dipped pizzelle cookies. Today we are going to learn how to make cannoli filling or dip, the simple Italian way! Because who doesn’t love cannoli right ? Authentic Cannoli Siciliani that is, filled with the freshest sheep’s milk ricotta cheese and candied fruit or nuts. Before I hear it from the "Cannoli Police" I would like to tell you that there is nothing ...
Ricotta Recipes
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 ...
Lemon Ricotta Cookies Recipe
Easy Italian lemon ricotta cookies recipe made with olive oil (no butter) and whole milk ricotta cheese. Crispy on the bottom and fluffy in the center with a luscious lemon glaze and poppy seeds sprinkle. I’m just here today to talk about cookies, how to make my my lemon ricotta cookies recipe! I'm super stoked about today's post you guys, because: Ricotta Cheese! I’m sure that makes sense to no-one but myself but let’s stay focused on what matters most: Ricotta Cookies! I’m breaking all ...
Chocolate Ricotta Muffins Recipe ( Olive Oil Muffins )
Italian chocolate ricotta muffins to give any muffin a run for the money ! |To make these ricotta muffins you will need Silicone Baking Cups like these or These | I made us the fluffiest cheesecake like chocolate ricotta muffins with extra virgin olive oil and lots of smooth dark chocolate. Perfect for Mother’s Day and even served on pretty fuchsia pink rose petals for the prettiest presentation. If you’ve been reading this blog for some time, then you’ll know we believe in ricotta muffins, ...
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 ...
Ricotta Meatballs Recipe
These ricotta meatballs swimming in a classic arrabbiata sauce made with the finest San Marzano tomatoes are everythiiiiing! Fluffy and moist, the absolute best Italian meatballs recipe ever! Served with spaghetti, linguine, rigatoni or bruschetta, the only question is: can you handle this? They are simply Italian beef meatballs with ricotta cheese inside the mix to make them extra magical. You already know I can’t bake a great thing without ricotta, and I don’t mean just muffins ...
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 ...
Ricotta Spinach Pizza Recipe
Italian crispy thin crust ricotta spinach pizza with fontina and roasted garlic. The best homemade white spinach pizza Bianca! This white ricotta spinach pizza with sweet roasted garlic cloves is a nice way to say good-by to summer. Naturally I wanted to close our little summer pizza series with one of my favorite healthy flavor combinations: ricotta + spinach! If you like white pizza, then this one is for you! Not that I mind diving into the soups and stews season at all, but first ...