What Nonna Gina Never Wrote Down: 50 Secret Italian Desserts

The feast-day sweets of the South, the ones the pasticcerie are proud of, finally written down to the gram. Nonna Gina's own nonna never used a recipe for them. “Guarda e impara,” she said: watch and learn. Now you don't have to stand next to her to learn.

What's inside

• 50 desserts in 5 chapters: cakes and tarts, pastries and yeasted sweets, fried sweets, cookies and nougat, spoon and frozen desserts
• Every gram, every minute and every trick, with clear numbered steps
• A full-page picture of the finished dessert for every recipe
• A guide to the special tools, with what to search for online and what to use instead
• Printable templates for the marzipan fish, the mostaccioli figures and the Easter scarcella
• 3 desserts Nonna always kept for the family, marked with a star
• 122 pages, US Letter PDF, with a clickable table of contents

A taste of the book: cassata siciliana, pastiera napoletana, sfogliatella Santa Rosa, cannoli siciliani, babà al rum, struffoli, cartellate and 43 more.

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