Tag: baking
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Nonna Elda’s Christmas Recipe for Chocolate Torrone
Chocolate Torrone is a family favourite in Italian households all over the diaspora. It’s easy to make it requires no baking and the recipe is enough for 8 logs that keep well for a month when kept somewhere cool and wrapped. This is the perfect gift to make for when visiting friends and family over…
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How to make Ciambelle Ciociare

Today we are making Ciambelle Ciociare, a kind of peasant bread or bread donuts that is traditional in the Ciociare region of Italy. We are making it for one of Nonna’s granddaughter’s weddings. This will accompany a full Italian cookie sweets table but these ciambelle are not sweet, they are anise flavoured and they are…