It’s beginning
to look a lot like Christmas, so today I want to share with you a simple recipe
for a sweet treat I make every Christmas with my mom in Italy.
They are
called Baci di Dama “Lady Kisses”.
It is an easy and simple recipe. You know me, I’m always on
the run, working on my music projects,
doing Concerts and writing songs. But I love to eat delicious food so it needs
to be delicious and fast to make.
So here is a faster variation of the recipe, where you can
buy the amaretto cookie instead or making them from scratch like in the original
recipe. My favorite are the Matilde Vicenzi Amaretti d'Italia. Delicious.
The Baci di Dama is a typical recipe of Piedmont cuisine. The origin
of these sweets is an open battle between those who support their origin from
the city of Tortona in Piedmont and those who makes them go back to an
invention of a pastry chef of the House of Savoy in 1852.
The name of these little pastries seems to derive from their
shape that recalls two lips kissing. It was my grandfather Ruggero favorite
sweets, and he was indeed from the Piedmont region and of coursed believed it
was from there.
Here how to make them:
- 120 Amaretti d'Italia Matilde Vicenzi (macaroons)
- 3 to 4
tablespoons of Nutella
- 1 to 3
cups of coffee mocha (coffee is fine without sugar)
- Grated
coconut
Preparation:
1. In a bowl pour the coffee (the coffee needs to be cold) and have some grated coconut ready for the decoration. Have the Nutella ready and a little spoon.
2. Spread now the amaretti cookies with the Nutella. Put the Nutella on an amaretto cookie, on the straight part, then take another one and do the same. Now push them together gently to avoid breakage.
3. Take the stuffed amaretti cookies and dip them one by one in the coffee and then in the grated coconut. Then place them in a baking dish or tray. I love to staple them in a circle so to recreate little Christmas trees.
4. When finished, put the “Baci di Dama” in the fridge for at least half an hour, so all the ingredients will marry beautifully with each other. When it's time to enjoy them, take them out of the fridge and serve them immediately.
The “Baci
di Dama” with coconut and Nutella are perfectly paring with both coffee, tea or
herbal tea. Are also excellent on their own, and if you love sweet wines, even
with some Marsala.
One little
variation to the recipe: You can also add to the cream some mascarpone. In this case you need to mix together 125
grams of mascarpone and add 1 tablespoon of Nutella. Mix them together in a
bowl until you get a smooth cream. Then proceed from point 2.
I hope you
will enjoy making them and eating them with your loved ones.
Let's hope it will be a Christmas filled with love for all of us.
Giada
www.giadavalenti.com
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