Dessert to bring for Italian dinner
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Anonymous
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Cannoli cake if you want to bake. Or a simple chocolate tort. Or a lemon ricotta cake that you can just sprinkle powder sugar onto.
Costco has good cannoli kits if you want to bring. |
Anonymous
| OP if you want to bring a bought dessert and support a local business, go to Vaccaro's cannoli factory in Silver Spring (Brookeville Rd). https://www.vaccaros.com |
Anonymous
| I’ve always been curious about those olive oil cakes. Maybe a lemon basil flavor would be good. If you feel up to experimenting, of course. |
Anonymous
| The cranberry trifle in the WaPo food section this week looked really good. |
Anonymous
| I really like a nice tray of “Italian cookies” from the bakery. |
Anonymous
| Ice cream cake |
Anonymous
| I would bring Italian cookies from a bakery plus a homemade chocolate cake with chocolate icing along with ice cream. Everyone loves chocolate cake. |
Anonymous
I would do the chocolate cake or tiramisu but not the cookies. I don't know anyone who actually likes Italian cookies from the bakery. |
Anonymous
| Old school - Spumoni ice cream! |
Anonymous
| Or look up a recipe for tortoni. Super easy and tasty/festive/retro. |
Anonymous
| With pasta and meatballs I would want something light, like fruit. But it's kind of mean to serve just fruit for dessert so I would offer both fruit and tiramisu. |
Anonymous
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This is really easy and would go well with the meal.
https://prettysimplesweet.com/lemon-olive-oil-cake/ |
Anonymous
Wait, have you actually found this in the dc area? Share your secret! This isn’t something I’d ever try to make myself, so I only get them when I go back home to CT. |
Anonymous
Italian store often has them. |
Anonymous
| Rainbow cookies |