| You may think you already know all about Italian food. | | | | candied cherry. This precious dessert dates back a |
| Almost daily you make spaghetti, lasagna and pizza | | | | couple of thousand years. |
| for your family. You may also cook most everything in | | | | There are so many to choose from, but another |
| olive oil and use plenty of garlic. However, you have | | | | memorable Italian dessert is biscotti. The cookie dough |
| not really lived until you have tasted these scrumptious | | | | is baked not once, but twice for crispness, is almond |
| Italian desserts. | | | | flavored and often dipped in chocolate. These are for |
| The dessert course at an Italian table is called "dolce," | | | | those who love to indulge in gastronomic delights. |
| meaning sweet. Regarding Italian desserts, they have | | | | It is no wonder that people all over the world consider |
| an endless array of chocolates, cookies and various | | | | Italian food as some of the most tasty and intricate |
| other enticing ambrosial offerings, the flavor of which | | | | foods around. Not everyone can afford to go to Italy |
| ranges from slightly bitter to fairly sweet. In general, | | | | to find them, but if you look for a local Italian restaurant |
| Italian desserts are not too sweet and are usually | | | | and skim their menus for these specialties, you won't |
| served with an Italian wine. | | | | be disappointed. |
| Life and love will not be the same after you have | | | | If you are a dessert addict like me and get somewhat |
| experienced the self-indulgent flavor of ladyfingers | | | | weak in the knees without the occasional foreign |
| dipped in a mix of coffee and Brandy layered with | | | | cuisine, you should make sure that you discover these |
| cream made up of eggs, mascarpone and Marsala | | | | delicious Italian concoctions. |
| wine in the authentic Italian version of Tiramisu. Your | | | | I believe if there is no dessert, then why have the meal |
| taste buds will thank you and you will crave it forever. | | | | in the first place? You need to set a goal during dinner |
| Next you should dive into a Cannoli. It is made of | | | | and that goal is dessert. Hey, I have even started out |
| pastry shells that resemble pasta shaped cannelloni. | | | | my meal with dessert and had another one afterward |
| The oblong tube is filled with chocolate chips, ricotta | | | | although I would not recommend it. You might hurt |
| and candied fruit usually garnished with a sweet | | | | yourself and then blame me. |