🍰 Italian Dessert Recipes

Sopranos Style Tiramisu

This light Soprano-style amaretto tiramisu recipe dips ladyfingers in coffee and layers them with amaretto-infused mascarpone and grated chocolate.

⏱️ 150 min 💪 Difficile 👥 12

Chombolini (Italian Anise Cake)

A festive Italian lemon anise cake is made with a flavorful blend of dates, walnuts, anise, and lemon. This chombolini recipe makes a perfect dessert.

⏱️ 95 min 💪 Difficile 👥 12

Tiramisu Poke Cake

This decadent tiramisu poke cake recipe features a boxed white cake poked and topped with a coffee-flavored sweet drizzle and cream cheese frosting.

⏱️ 210 min 💪 Difficile 👥 12

Chocolate and Orange Tiramisu

This chocolate and orange tiramisu recipe is a tweak on the Italian favorite with orange-soaked ladyfingers, creamy mascarpone, and a dusting of cocoa.

⏱️ 345 min 💪 Difficile 👥 12

Italian Ricotta Cookies

This Italian ricotta cookies recipe makes soft and fluffy ricotta cookies topped with a sweet lemon glaze and colored sprinkles for a holiday favorite.

⏱️ 30 min 🔥 Medio 👥 48

Italian Easter Cookies (Biscotti)

This Italian Easter cookies (biscotti) recipe makes a traditional crunchy biscotti with a hint of anise. It's the ideal cookie for dipping into coffee.

⏱️ 135 min 💪 Difficile 👥 72

Italian Wedding Cookies

These Italian wedding cookies are tender, buttery, and full of nutty flavor; coat with powdered sugar for a sweet, melt-in-your-mouth holiday treat.

⏱️ 75 min 🔥 Medio 👥 80

Tiramisu

This tiramisu is made with layers of coffee and rum-soaked ladyfingers, homemade mascarpone custard, cream, and cocoa for a decadent Italian dessert.

⏱️ 335 min 💪 Difficile 👥 12

Italian Love Cake

Quick and easy to make, this recipe for Italian love cake has a chocolate cake layer, a ricotta cheese layer, and chocolate pudding topping.

⏱️ 95 min 💪 Difficile 👥 18

Classic Tiramisu

This tiramisu recipe gently cooks egg yolks and whips them with creamy mascarpone; spread over coffee liqueur-soaked ladyfingers and top with cocoa and chocolate curls.

⏱️ 120 min 💪 Difficile 👥 12

Italian Easter Grain Pie

This Italian Easter grain pie made with ricotta, wheat berries, and candied citrus is flavored with orange and lemon zest for a delicious dessert.

⏱️ 585 min 💪 Difficile 👥 16

Tiramisu Cake

This tiramisu cake with 3 layers of coffee-flavored sponge cake, coffee liqueur filling, and fluffy mascarpone cream is a decadent twist on the popular Italian dessert.

⏱️ 105 min 💪 Difficile 👥 12

Italian Rice Pie

This sweet rice pie made with lots of eggs, heavy cream, ricotta, vanilla, and cooked rice is a traditional and delicious Italian Easter dessert.

⏱️ 75 min 🔥 Medio 👥 8

Italian Knot Cookies

Passed down through generations, this recipe for Italian knot cookies produces a large batch of soft and sweet Sicilian biscotti that can be frozen for later.

⏱️ 45 min 🔥 Medio 👥 60

Ricotta Pie (Old Italian Recipe)

This homemade ricotta pie has a sweetened crust and silky ricotta filling with chocolate chips for the perfect Italian dessert on special occasions.

⏱️ 120 min 💪 Difficile 👥 24

New York Italian Style Cheesecake

This New York Italian-style cheesecake recipe is crustless and needs time to cool. Cream cheese, ricotta cheese, and sour cream make it rich and smooth.

⏱️ 260 min 💪 Difficile 👥 12

Italian Crema Ice Cream (Gelato alla Crema)

Purer than vanilla ice cream, Chef John's simple Italian crema ice cream (gelato alla crema) recipe is a revelation in whole milk and heavy cream.

⏱️ 760 min 💪 Difficile 👥 7

Italian Cookies with Anise

Sure to be a hit at your next family gathering, these Italian cookies flavored with anise are dipped in a sweet icing to take them over the top.

⏱️ 55 min 🔥 Medio 👥 36

Italian Fresh Purple Grape Cake

This Italian fresh grape cake recipe, with olive oil, citrus zest, and fresh purple grapes, is ideal with a glass of Vin Santo or other dessert wine.

⏱️ 100 min 💪 Difficile 👥 8