
Almond Croccante
A thin crisp almond brittle, pressed into a lightly greased mould while warm and unmoulded when fully cold.
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A thin crisp almond brittle, pressed into a lightly greased mould while warm and unmoulded when fully cold.

Blanched-almond milk and cream custard churned into almond ice cream with a little kirsch.

Two scalloped rounds of homemade puff pastry enclose a thin almond and candied-orange filling, finished with egg glaze and icing sugar.

A delicate gelato of freshly extracted sweet almond milk and cream, scented with orange blossom.

A firm milk-rice cake with ground almonds and tiny candied-citron pieces, chilled overnight and cut into diamonds before a light sugar dusting.

A shortcrust tart filled with almond paste, topped with a light layer of very fine egg noodles and finished with candied citron and vanilla icing sugar.

A gently baked chocolate-almond filling thickened with potato starch and milk, set over a thin plain pastry base and served cold in diamonds.

Chopped almonds fill a cinnamon cake sweetened with honey and brown sugar. Milk and beaten egg moisten the batter; bake it in a shallow tin and rest it before cutting eight portions.

A moist coconut milk cake with almonds and a warm honey coconut glaze, baked in an oval dish. Makes eight dessert portions.

Small almond-and-sugar sweets scented with maraschino and rolled in finely grated chocolate.

Chopped almonds and orange flesh give texture to a vanilla yoghurt cake with cardamom. The batter is spread in a shallow tin and rested after baking before four generous portions are cut.

A small round cake rich in eggs and honey, with orange flesh and chopped almonds. Vanilla joins the batter; let the dense bake rest in its tin before dividing four dessert portions.

Natural yoghurt and orange flesh keep this almond cake moist, with finely sliced mint throughout. The mixture is baked as a broad layer and allowed to settle before six generous portions are cut.

Pomegranate arils and chopped almonds fill a yoghurt cake with vanilla. The almonds remain pieces rather than almond flour, and the moist mixture bakes as a shallow layer before it rests.

A cooked milk-and-yolk gelato with finely ground amaretti biscuits.

Light almond biscuits made by working egg whites with sugar before adding finely chopped almonds, baked into rounded shells with an airy interior.

Fine almond biscuits formed from almonds ground with unwhipped egg white and icing sugar added in stages, lightly dusted with icing sugar before a hot bake.

A baked ring pudding of crushed amaretti, milk and potato starch, filled and covered with a warm Marsala zabaione.

Baked strawberry-bottom almond-and-crumb pudding topped with candied cherries.

Orange and lemon water ice with claret, sparkling hard cider, kirsch and maraschino.

Small airy white egg-foam cake cut into six pieces.

A rum-flavoured jelly decorated with candied angelica.

Golden cut-out biscuits made with fine cornmeal, wheat flour, butter, lard and anise seeds, egg-glazed and finished with icing sugar.

Firm egg dough flavoured with anise liqueur and lemon, kneaded with a little olive oil and gently fried into small pieces, then dusted with sugar.