Italian means "Savoi's biscuit" (Savoi family is the predecessor of the kingdom of Sardinia in Italy). Although it is a biscuit, it contains no oil and tastes as sweet and soft as sponge cake, so it is vividly called "a lady's finger". Besides being eaten directly, it can also be used as the bottom of sandwich desserts such as tiramisu, and can also be used as the decorative edge of other cakes.
2 slices of Italian almond shortcake
Traditional dim sum, born in Tuscany in the Middle Ages, is a kind of almond-flavored hard biscuit, made of various dried fruits or nuts, crispy and delicious from the inside out. When it is bitten off, it will make a small sound, so when naming it, we refer to the word "Cantocci/Cantucci", which means "faint singing" in Italian. Because it is too hard, Italians often soak it in after-dinner wine (such as Italian sweet white wine "Vin Santo") or coffee, and then take it out to eat.
3 Afugado Affogato
The literal translation means "soaking in water", which means soaking the famous Italian handmade ice cream Italian ice cream in a delicious drink. Ice cream is mostly vanilla, chocolate, hazelnut, rum and other common flavors, and drinks include coffee, black tea, liqueur and so on, but in fact, the amount of drinks injected is not much. It can produce ever-changing combinations, but the most popular one is still the combination of traditional vanilla ice cream and espresso.
4 cream muffins
Sicilian traditional cake. The appearance of the traditional cream crisp roll is very simple, and the pastry fried at low temperature and sprinkled with fine sugar powder is wrapped in a creamy white filling. It is made of whipped cream and local specialty whey cheese. The shelf life of this kind of cheese is only about ten days, so many pastry chefs outside Sicily use whipped cream instead.
The freshly fried Italian fried cheese roll is affordable and tastes sweet and crisp. Fancy cheese rolls will be covered with rich materials. After baking, colorful materials such as chocolate beans, nuts, candied fruits or candied pumpkins will be dotted on both sides, which not only increases the taste, but also optimizes the "face value".
5 rum cake
This is a dry fermented cake, which originated in Eastern Europe and has a long history. The appearance is round, and the top is often decorated with whipped cream and black cherry. Because it is dry, when preparing to eat, in addition to filling the hollow part in the middle of the circle with decorative whipped cream and fresh fruit, the whole cake must also be poured with fragrant rum to make the cake moist and delicious.
6 sandwich cheese layer cake point Sfogliatella
Born in Naples, it means "layer upon layer" in Italian, which is in harmony with its shell-like horizontal stripes. The work of skin is very complicated, which requires several people to work on a big workbench, and each layer of skin should be pulled very thin. Usually it's fragrant and crisp. Fillers made of whey cheese, custard, almond cream, fruit preserves and other materials with Italian characteristics are full of tender and slender sweetness. Sprinkle with sugar coating, it tastes especially crisp and delicious when it is hot. This is a dessert that is delicious enough to represent Italy in various high-end restaurants even abroad.