Italian Christmas Desserts
Click on above hyperlink and keep scrolling down for pictures of all the Christmas desserts.
This is also a very nice website for other recipes and traditions for various holidays......very nostalgic.
Who remembers these Italian desserts from childhood??? Or others?
I do remember the Zuppa Inglese Italian "trifle" ; looks really good.....rum, etc. I also remember plain rum cakes....
I do recall the Stuffoli honey balls my mom would make for my dad.
We'd help her pinch off the dough, etc. and later roll them in the sprinkles....(after the honey)
I definitely remember making the Pizzelle.....
For sure the Venetian layered cookies.......at my grandmother's
The Panettone.........the Biscotti........
They don't show them, but I remember all the canoli, both plain and chocolate dipped.
Plus other types of "cream puffs"......and delicious pastries and breads from both Ferrara's and also Parisi Bakers....
Some of those cakes, such as the fig cakes "might" have been there, but I probably didn't eat them, thus have no memory at this time....
Back in those days, they ate sparingly most of year, but went all out for the feast days and holidays, for sure.
I actually cannot think of one single Ukrainian dessert from my other grandmother......but the Italian "table" remains in my memory......
I still order all of my Christmas cookies and canoli, yeast breads, struffoli, tira misu, etc., etc. from Ferraras Bakery in N.Y.C. I also send them as gifts. The five pound cookie platters are excellent and have a selection of all the cookies, including the pignoli cookies (pine nuts)....rainbow cookies, etc.
Each year they arrive, overnight, totally perfect, all in one piece and excellent as usual. Very nostalgic. When our kids were still home I would bake for days and weeks.........but now I just order the cookies.