European birthday party bake desserts recipes

Bonet

Typical Piedmontese pudding, made with cocoa and amaretti.

Chocolate Queen cake

This is a very tasty cake. Not too sweet even it has so much chocolate. It's basis for the cake which take 20-25 minutes to do!

Dolce Casalinga con pinoli

This is the cake we make for birthdays. It is simply delish. Original recipe is handwritten. Please make any changes to make this cake work for…

Molten Chocolate Cake with Fresh Raspberries

These individual molten chocolate cakes are simple and elegant, and they bake in under 10 minutes. You can use…

Berry Crunch Cupcakes

These berry cakes have ground almonds in to add an interesting crunch to each bite!

small almond cookies

nice moister almond cookies

Butter Free Chocolate Orange Rum Cake

These sunk a little when I made them, but I have adjusted the temperature and baking time so that this…

Strawberry Cream Cheese Lemon Pie

This has a butter-free pastry made with oats and coconut, yum! You can eat these warm, but if you want to…

Mango Gateau with peaches and cream

A Gateau is a French style sponge cake traditionally made with cream and may be a multilayered cake. I made…

Paciencias, Castilian cookies

Paciencias are small round crispy cookies typical from various parts of Castilla, the central part of Spain.

cake RICOTTA cheese CHOCOLATE RUM

All this talk about APRONS and Grandmothers got me going on assembling my notes and photos to finally share…

NUTTY flourless cookie CRISPS < Brutti ma Buoni >

Got a few egg whites left over from a recipe? Here's a super easy crispy, flourless cookie called < Brutti…

Pão de Ló - Portuguese Sponge Cake

I have always loved this recipe, especially when one is able to cook in in such a way that the middle part is…

Olive Oil Cake

Mascarpone cheese and Baileys cake

A super-moist and fluffy cake, creamy with mascarpone cheese and spiced up with Baileys.