Christmas is approaching, and desserts, chocolate, and cocoa are flowing like water. We’re here to “help” by adding fuel to the fire: marbled brownies are a great recipe to bring to pre-Christmas dinners if you’re tired of the usual panetùn or pandoro! The recipe serves 8–12 people and is very easy to follow.

Happy Wednesday, everyone! It’s almost very little At Christmas, we’ve held out for a whole year—between diets (yeah, right… not so much for us, but we do it for you ;)) and sacrifices (lots of those!)—and now it’s finally time to treat ourselves to all the Christmas desserts! So here’s my version of the Stuffed Pandoro! I was looking for some inspiration online and kept coming across the usual pandoro cakes filled in the shape of a staggered Christmas tree—talk about creative!

December is here! It’s time to start thinking about what desserts to make for our dear friends and family! For this loooong Sant’Ambreus weekend in Milan, I made gingerbread men!!! . Gingerbread men, made perhaps even more famous by the first Shrek movie in the scene where he’s tortured by being dunked in milk (I’ll leave the clip from YouTube at the end of this post—check it out, it’s hilarious!).

Christmas is just around the corner, and it wouldn’t be Christmas without some beautiful shortbread cookies decorated with royal icing :) The shortcrust pastry for these cookies is different from the one I shared with you previously (shortbread cookies); in fact, in this case Christmas Cookies We don’t want the cookie to be crumbly, otherwise it would break while we’re decorating it :) It’s also important to point out a few things: the dough is made with powdered sugar to make the cookie’s surface smoother. Also, butter is the enemy of icing, so let the cookies rest for a few hours (I leave them overnight) with the surface facing down on a paper towel so that all the excess butter is absorbed by the paper towel. I chose Christmas trees that are simple and fun to decorate, but you can choose any shape you like.