Maritozzi (Italian cream buns)
In Rome they often start the day with a maritozzo – a light brioche bun, perfumed…
🍽 Makes 15⏱ 1 hour hands-on · 15 min oven◆ Challenge
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Sweet Italian baking recipes
Give your bakes a continental spin with these sweet Italian baking recipes. Many Italian regions have a rich baking heritage, and our collection includes iconic dishes from across the country.
Take a trip to Rome with a batch of maritozzi buns, cloud-like sweet buns filled with whipped cream, or try Sicily’s beloved cannoli. Our step-by-step recipe will help you master their distinctive crispy shell and creamy filling.
Looking for a simple but stunning dessert? Try torta barozzi, a rich flourless chocolate cake from Northern Italy. Got time to linger in the kitchen? A lemony torta del nonna or seriously indulgent mocha tiramisu torte is just the ticket.
Italian biscuits make perfect food gifts or treats to share over coffee with friends. Check out our recipes for biscotti, florentines and cantucci below. Once you’ve had your sweet fix, take a look at our savoury Italian baking collection, too. Buon appetito!
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Theo Randall’s torta sacripantina (cherry and raspberry genoise)
Torta sacripantina is a dessert from Italy’s Liguria region. Theo Randall shares his recipe for this…
🍽 Serves 10⏱ 40 min hands-on · 20 min oven◆ Medium
Theo Randall’s torta barozzi (flourless chocolate, almond and rum cake)
Torta barozzi is a rich, fudgy flourless chocolate cake from Northern Italy. Have chef Theo Randall’s…
Gluten-free
🍽 Serves 10⏱ 20 min. Oven time 30 min hands-on · 30 min oven◆ Easy
Theo Randall’s torta della nonna (lemon custard tart with pine nut topping)
Have you ever tried a classic Italian torta della nonna recipe? “You’ll find this torta all…
Vegetarian
🍽 Serves 10⏱ 40 min hands-on · 1 hour oven◆ Medium
Strudel di mele (Italian apple strudel)
The Austrian influence on the food of the mountainous Italian region Trentino-Alto Adige is perfectly encapsulated…
Freezable
🍽 Serves 8⏱ 50 min hands-on · 35 min oven◆ Medium
Tegole (Italian almond and hazelnut biscuits)
These concave biscuits are named after their shape – tegole means ‘tiles’, as they resemble roof…
🍽 Makes 16⏱ 10 min. Oven time 12 min hands-on · 12 min oven◆ Easy
Cannoli
Cannoli are undoubtedly the most popular dessert of Sicilian baking. A bite into a homemade cannoli…
🍽 Makes 12⏱ 1 hour 30 min hands-on◆ Medium
Raspberry cream maritozzi buns
Maritozzi, delightful enriched-dough buns from Italy, are as light as a cloud. We’ve filled them with…
Vegetarian
🍽 Makes 10 buns⏱ 1 hour hands-on · 20 min oven◆ Easy
Sweet ricotta tart
Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s sweet ricotta tart with dark chocolate and Italian candied fruit is a perfect…
Vegetarian
🍽 Makes 10-12 slices⏱ 20 min hands-on · 35 min oven◆ Easy
Torta della nonna (ricotta and lemon tart)
Angela Hartnett’s elegant ricotta and lemon tart (torta della nonna) would make a fine dinner party…
🍽 Serves 8-10⏱ 45 min hands-on · 1 hour 15 min oven◆ Medium
Apricot and pistachio cantuccini
Cantuccini, otherwise known as biscotti, are a fabulously crunchy Italian biscuit great for dunking in coffee.
🍽 Makes about 24⏱ 15 min hands-on · 1 hour 45 min oven◆ Medium
Torta caprese
⏱ 20 min hands-on◆ Easy
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