I Need Ideas For An Italian Dessert...
Decorating By MommyBunny Updated 4 Apr 2007 , 12:18pm by MommyBunny
for a school project for my son. He has a report on Italy due and he gets extra credit for a food that's brought in from this country. All I can find is Italian wedding cookies, which is great but I was wondering if there maybe something else a bunch of 6yr olds would eat.
HELP!!!
Patricia
What about the "spaghetti" cake or little "spaghetti" cupcakes?
ok, I did a search and the "pannacotta" means cooked cream. I found it on Food tv (Canada). I figure you could pour it in small 3/6oz cups:
White Chocolate Pannacotta
Yield: 3
White chocolate is the sexiest chocolate you can get. Its subtle vanilla characteristic blends so well with the delicate, melt-in-your-mouth texture of this Italian set-cream custard. Matching it with the most amazing combination of ripe strawberries and aged balsamic makes for a blow-out dessert.
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Ingredients:
White Chocolate Pannacotta
* 1.2 L (2 pints) double cream
* 2 x vanilla pods, split
* finely grated zest of 1 unwaxed lemon
* 3 x gelatine leaves
* 150 ml (5 fl oz) full-fat milk
* 250 gram (9 oz) good-quality white chocolate
* 85 gram (3 oz) icing sugar
* fresh strawberries, aged balsamic vinegar and icing sugar, to serve
Directions:
White Chocolate Pannacotta
1. Pour 900 ml (12/3 pints) of the double cream into a small pan and stir in the vanilla pods and lemon zest. Then simmer until reduced by a quarter. Keep warm.
2. Soak the gelatine in the cold milk to soften, Then warm the milk until the gelatine is dissolved. Stir into the reduced cream mixture, along with the white chocolate. Pass through a sieve into a bowl and chill over ice until thickened but not solid.
3. Lightly whip the remaining double cream and fold in the icing sugar. Fold this mixture into the thickened white-chocolate cream. Divide between eight cappuccino cups (about 1 50 ml (5 fl oz) capacity) and leave to set. To serve, turn each pannacotta out onto a plate and top with quartered fresh strawberries, which have been slightly crushed with a little icing sugar, and drizzle with balsamic vinegar.
Italian cream cake
OH yummm......made into cup cakes or mini muffins!
I live in a very italian area. Egg biscuits are popular. They are iced w/a basic conf sugar icing and colored sprinkles... so the kids usually like them for that!
5 cups flour
3/4 cup sugar
5 tsp baking pwder
3/4 cup oil
4 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
1 tsp lemon extract
3/4 cup milk
combine all ingredients, mix as little as possible. Pick up w/fingers (or roll small ball- less than 1") and drop on cookie sheet bake 375 top shelf for 10 mins
FROSTING - I use a tablespoon and pour icing on biscuits.
conf sugar
hot water
lemon extract
colored sprinkles
Sofoglia, tiramisu, cannoli, all definite favourites here!
Italian Anise Cookieshttp://www.recipezaar.com/214498
I'm tellin' you...for a bunch of six year olds...little "spaghetti" cupcakes! 
Okay, I'll bite. . . how do you do "spaghetti cupcakes"?
Leslie
Okay, I'll bite. . . how do you do "spaghetti cupcakes"?
Leslie
bake cupcake.
make icing
#3 tip or so
squiggle away on top until looks like mini-plate of spaghetti (sort of sotas/cornelia lace done during an earthquake)
add raspberry or strawberry "tomato" sauce
plop on a meatball -- aka chocolate cake ball (choice of coated/uncoated)
Okay, I'll bite. . . how do you do "spaghetti cupcakes"?
Leslie
bake cupcake.
make icing
#3 tip or so
squiggle away on top until looks like mini-plate of spaghetti (sort of sotas/cornelia lace done during an earthquake)
add raspberry or strawberry "tomato" sauce
plop on a meatball -- aka chocolate cake ball (choice of coated/uncoated)
Doug - I quiver in the presence of your incomparable brilliance!
no i fall for them too Alicia. There are a lot of them in this area of france that i live in.
I think the spaghetti cupcakes would be too cute. As much as I love all the italian desserts listed on here at six they wouldnt have been as good.
Thanks for the info, with the research I did on italian desserts most where for adult tastes. 
Tonight when I get home I will run some ideas past my son and see which one he picks.
With the spagetti cupcakes is there anything special in the cupcakes, I can't imagine spagetti in there but I guess stranger things have happened. And I know this is a stupid question but is the spagetti cupcakes something they eat in italy? The item has to be a food they eat in the country. It's a cute idea, so I just wanted to ask.
Patricia
I just uploaded a photo of a spaghetti cake I did yesterday, so look in my photos to get an idea. It's just the icing, that looks like spaghetti noodles, and a little bit of strawberry jam for the sauce, and you can even add "meatballs" made out of chocolate, or whatever you decide. It's more for the looks of being Italian food than it is really Italian food.
"And I know this is a stupid question but is the spaghetti cupcakes something they eat in Italy? The item has to be a food they eat in the country. It's a cute idea, so I just wanted to ask." No, it isn't. If you had a pizzelle baker, that would be a good choice.
I personally love canoli's...Mmmmmthere are soooo good!!!Fairly easy to make also!
I have found something called Egg Biscuits....any thoughts?
Patricia
I have found something called Egg Biscuits....any thoughts?
Patricia
I looked up the recipe, because I have never heard of it. My first thought is that it seems like more of an adult taste type of dish. Especially since it has anise in it and a lot of kids do not like the taste of black licorice.
There was a dessert I made once called "Italian Love Cake" in which you took a marble cake mix and dumped sweetened ricotta cheese on top. Then covered it with a cool whip/pudding mix. I am not sure if this is a truly ethnic recipe, but it was good.
Oh has anyone said tiramisu? They are pretty easy to make.
Well, I didn't MAKE anything, we got home late last night, so I BOUGHT biscotti. They are as hard as a brick.
I said something to the teacher about it and she said the main idea was to try something different from another country. So I guess it's cool.
Thanks everybunny for the input.
Patricia
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