- Read offline
- Remove ads
- Access all content
- Build a list of your own favourites
- Search the contents with full-text search functionality
- ... and more!
Desserts and pastries
amandovolo
cake covered with chocolate and almonds
babà
dessert or savoury bread
barchiglia
chocolate topped pear and almond tart
bavarese
bavarois
berlingozzo
dense ring cake flavoured with aniseeds
bertolina
grape filled pie from Cremona
biancomangiare
blancmange
bignè
beignet
biscione
viper-shaped Christmas cake
bisciöla
rich cake with figs, raisins and walnuts
bocca di dama
ancient Tuscan cake, or Puglian breast-shaped pastries
bocconotti
bite-size filled pastries
bonet
coffee or chocolate flavoured cake
brioche
pastry
buccellato
Sicilian fruitcake
bucchinotti
pastries filled almond paste and cherries
budino
pudding
Cannoli
Sicilian ricotta pastries
cannoncini
cream horns
cartellate
Puglia's Christmas pastries
casadinas
litte cheesecakes
caschettes
pastry shaped like a rose
cassata
Sicily's famous cake
cassatedde
ricotta filled pastry moons
castagnacci
flat chestnut cake
certosino
Bolognese fruitcake
chiavi di violino
treble clef pastries
cialda
wafer
ciarduna
crispy curled almond wafter shells
colomba di Pasqua
traditional Easter cake
colombine
dove shaped Easter pastries or mushrooms
copuleta
pastries filled with almond paste
cornetto
croissant
crafuns mori
lingonberry jam doughnuts
crema caramella
caramel custard or flan
crescia fojata
strudel filled with nuts and dried fruit
crescionda
three layer cake
crostata
pie or tart
delizia al limone
lemon delights
diplomatici
a many layered pastry
dolce
sweet, tender
Duchessa di Parma
turkey, ham and cheese rolls—or a dessert
Elvezia
The 'Swiss' cake of Mantua
fiadona
savoury or sweet pies
fiamme
chocolate pastry 'flames'
fregnaccia
a tart or a pancake or pasta
frustingo
sweet made with dried fruits, nuts & figs
gattò
cake (both savoury or sweet)
gelo
cold dessert
graffe
sugar doughnuts
gubana
rich ring cake filled with walnuts and raisins
kaiserschmarren
shredded pancakes with fruit
krafen
jelly doughnuts
Kugelhopf
round aniseed flavoured cake
maritozzo
Roman sugar bun
mecoulin
Christmas cake from Cogne
miascia
bread pudding, Lake Como style
migliaccio
semolina or chestnut flour or pig's blood cake
millefoglie
many layered dessert or cheese
minni di virgine
virgin's breasts pastries
montebianco
montblanc
pabassinas
traditional Sardinian pastries with various toppings
pan di Spagna
sponge cake
pandolce
Christmas fruit cake
pandorato
fried bread or a cake
pandoro
the golden cake of Verona
panettoncino al mais
corn flour Christmas cake
panettone
Milan's Christmas cake
pangiallo
Rome's Christmas cake
panna cotta
chilled 'cooked cream'
pardulas
sweet cheese tarts
parrozzo
Abruzzese almond cake
pasimata
Holy Week cake
pasta frolla
shortcrust pastry
pasta Genovese
sponge cake
pasta matta
'crazy pastry'
pasta sfoglia
puff pastry
pasticcini
little pastries
pastiera
Neapolitan Easter pie
pattona
traditional chestnut cake
pesche
soft cream-filled brioches
pigna
Easter (or Christmas) cake
pizza di pasqua
Roman Easter cake
polenta e osei
a main course, or a little cake
presnitz
fruit and nut filled roll
pèttole
fried dough balls
rigojanci
chocolate sponge and cream cake
rimpizze
sweet brioches
risolatte
rice pudding
rocciata
central Italian strudel
rosegota
crumbly cake
sabadoni
sweet ravioli
saccottini
chocolate-filled pastries or stuffed pasta
Sacripante
salame del re
jelly roll
sbriciolata
pie with a crumble topping
sbrisolona
a crumbly cake
Schwarzplententorte
buckwheat flour cake
seadas
Fried pastry with cheese and honey
semifreddo
cold dessert
sfincia
pastries for St Joe
sfogliata
millefeuille pie or tart
sfogliatella
millefeuille pastries
sfoglini
little pastries
sfratto
pastry filled with walnuts, honey and spices
sise de mòneche
‘nuns’ breasts’
spongata
Christmas cake filled with fruit and nuts
stroscia
olive oil and Martini crumble cake
strucolo
strudel
tiramisu
everyone's favourite 'pick me up'
torciglione
Christmas cake shaped like eel
torta
pie, cake, sweet bread or tart
torta degli addobbi
rice and almond tart
torta di riso
rice tart
tortoni
a lighter kind of ice cream
trionfo di frutta
seasonal fruit platter
ventagli
elephants' ears
zabaglione
custard with sweet wine
zeppole
'St Joseph's pastries'
zuccotto
semi-frozen dessert
zuppa inglese
'English soup': a layered dessert