Desserts

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  Baked Coconut Rice Pudding A slow-baked rice pudding made rich with coconut milk and scented with lime and a hint of star anise, baked… Total time: about 2 hours 35 minutes
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  Baked Rice Cakes Individual baked rice puddings: arborio rice cooked in lemon-cinnamon milk, enriched with butter and egg yo… Total time: about 1 hour
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  Battered Bananas Banana chunks in a light rice-flour and cinnamon batter, deep-fried until golden and tossed in brown sugar … Total time: 30 minutes
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  Berry Cassata Semifreddo A no-bake frozen cassata: rum-dipped ladyfingers lining a sweet ricotta-and-mixed-berry filling, frozen and… Total time: about 15 minutes plus freezing
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  Cherry Crepes Thin mint-flecked crepes folded around a thickened almond-scented cherry filling, dusted with icing sugar a… Total time: 45 minutes
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  Classic Tiramisu A crowd-sized tiramisu: ladyfingers dipped in espresso and Sambuca, layered with a whipped mascarpone, egg … Total time: about 24 hours with chilling
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  Coffee Creme Brulee A baked coffee custard set in ramekins, chilled, then finished with a brittle broiled brown-sugar crust. Total time: about 4 hours with chilling
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  Decadent Rice Pudding A stovetop arborio rice pudding simmered in milk with nutmeg, golden raisins and lemon rind, topped with to… Total time: 45 minutes
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  Eggless Sponge Cake A vegan-friendly whole-wheat sponge made with oil instead of butter and eggs, sandwiched with fruit spread … Total time: about 1 hour 45 minutes
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  Honey and Nut Pasta Nests Baked nests of buttered capellini layered with chopped nuts, baked golden and soaked in a lemon-honey syrup… Total time: about 1 hour 10 minutes
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  Honeyed Rice Pudding Steamed individual rice puddings sweetened with honey and cinnamon, layered with an apricot-ginger paste an… Total time: about 1 hour
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  Pear and Almond Pie Poached pear halves filled with rum-spiked almond cream, baked in puff pastry under a lattice, served with … Total time: about 1.5 hours
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  Pineapple Upside-Down Cake A vegan upside-down cake: pineapple pieces under a cinnamon oil sponge, baked and inverted, served with a g… Total time: about 1 hour 5 minutes
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  Sweet Polenta Cake A baked sweet polenta: corn meal cooked in sweetened milk, enriched with eggs, butter and lemon, baked on a… Total time: about 1 hour
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  Tiramisu with Zabaglione A traditional layered tiramisu built on a cooked zabaglione, coffee-laced mascarpone and whipped cream, wit… Total time: about 1 hour plus chilling
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  Tropical Fruit and Rice Mould A light molded rice pudding set with gelatin and yogurt, flecked with pineapple and lime, turned out and fi… Total time: about 4.5 hours with chilling
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  Tuscan Fried Pastries Crisp Tuscan carnival pastries (cenci): a thin olive-oil dough cut into ribbons, deep-fried and dusted with… Total time: 45 minutes