Dessert to bring for Italian dinner

[Anonymous]

Rum balls

[Anonymous]

I just made an absolutely finger-licking tiramisu for my husband's birthday. The whipped cream/mascarpone version is easy to make. I haven't tried making the beaten egg white version, since I didn't want the hassle of pasteurizing the egg whites, but it makes for a dessert that's much lighter in calories, with protein! If you're finishing the dessert that day, you can perhaps get away without pasteurizing the eggs first.

Unfortunately, it needs to chill for several hours, so you might not have the time for a Christmas Eve dinner.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sfogliatelle

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.

Yes:


https://www.yelp.com/biz/cornucopia-bethesda

Unfortunately COVID has wreaked havoc on this small business, so they can't make a lot of the fresh sandwiches etc..to order. But they have the lobster tails and cannolis.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

I second the lemon ricotta cake. I thought they sounded disgusting (ricotta? Like a lumpy cheesecake) but I had one, and it was so so good. Light and lemony. It was served with a lemon curd as well. I'm sorry I don't have a recipe to share, as mine was at an italian restaurant I went to on a business trip. If anyone has a recipe.......

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would bring Italian cookies from a bakery plus a homemade chocolate cake with chocolate icing along with ice cream. Everyone loves chocolate cake.

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.

You need new friends! Italian bakery cookies are the best.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
I just made an absolutely finger-licking tiramisu for my husband's birthday. The whipped cream/mascarpone version is easy to make. I haven't tried making the beaten egg white version, since I didn't want the hassle of pasteurizing the egg whites, but it makes for a dessert that's much lighter in calories, with protein! If you're finishing the dessert that day, you can perhaps get away without pasteurizing the eggs first.

Unfortunately, it needs to chill for several hours, so you might not have the time for a Christmas Eve dinner.

Recipe, please?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Invited to friends. What would be a good dessert? I think it's pasta and meatballs. Feel like we should make something since it's Christmas Eve.

Pasta and meatballs are not an Italian dinner so take whatever you want for dessert.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would bring Italian cookies from a bakery plus a homemade chocolate cake with chocolate icing along with ice cream. Everyone loves chocolate cake.

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.

Speak for yourself, Medigan.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Invited to friends. What would be a good dessert? I think it's pasta and meatballs. Feel like we should make something since it's Christmas Eve.

Pasta and meatballs are not an Italian dinner so take whatever you want for dessert.

It’s Italian-American and it’s awesome. Get over yourself.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Old school - Spumoni ice cream!

When I was growing up there was a place that had a spumoni ice cream cake. It was spumoni ice cream with a not too sweet chocolate almond brownie ish cake. So good.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would bring Italian cookies from a bakery plus a homemade chocolate cake with chocolate icing along with ice cream. Everyone loves chocolate cake.

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.

???? So many memories of lines around the block for cookies from Termini’s bakery in Philly. You have all the wrong friends.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
I just made an absolutely finger-licking tiramisu for my husband's birthday. The whipped cream/mascarpone version is easy to make. I haven't tried making the beaten egg white version, since I didn't want the hassle of pasteurizing the egg whites, but it makes for a dessert that's much lighter in calories, with protein! If you're finishing the dessert that day, you can perhaps get away without pasteurizing the eggs first.

Unfortunately, it needs to chill for several hours, so you might not have the time for a Christmas Eve dinner.

Recipe, please?

This is the whipped cream version, with pasteurized egg yolks:

https://natashaskitchen.com/tiramisu-recipe/

I chilled it for 3 hours instead of the recommended 6 hours to overnight, and it was delicious but hard to serve. We ate the rest for breakfast the next day (!), and it was much easier to cut.

[Anonymous]

OP, did they ASK you to bring dessert? If they didn't, then don't bring dessert and just bring a normal host gift. I hate it when I have meticulously planned my menu and a guest shows up with some awful thing that I then have to serve instead of what I had planned.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, did they ASK you to bring dessert? If they didn't, then don't bring dessert and just bring a normal host gift. I hate it when I have meticulously planned my menu and a guest shows up with some awful thing that I then have to serve instead of what I had planned.

There is no evidence that OP was planning to bring some awful thing, and it's clearly two days past the event. so what is the point of your comment?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, did they ASK you to bring dessert? If they didn't, then don't bring dessert and just bring a normal host gift. I hate it when I have meticulously planned my menu and a guest shows up with some awful thing that I then have to serve instead of what I had planned.

There is no evidence that OP was planning to bring some awful thing, and it's clearly two days past the event. so what is the point of your comment?

The point is that OP does NOT indicate that s/he was asked to bring dessert, which implies that OP has spontaneously decided to bring dessert. Yikes, what poor behavior. It is completely rude for a guest to bring something for the meal without clearing it with the host.