Just when I thought I couldn't top last year's Gingerbread Ice Cream Cake I have a new favourite Christmas dessert. These incredible 'candles' are actually Italian biscuit tubes filled with hazelnuts and a mascarpone nutella cream. They are then covered in white chocolate with little caramel flames. They look incredible and would definitely impress even your toughest Christmas critics.

With a departure from my usual Italian Christmas recipe last year, this year I decided it was time to make something Italian again in a nod to my ancestry. Christmas food in Italy is certainly hard to beat!

It's difficult to ascertain if Candele dolci di Natale (sweet Christmas candles) are a new Italian … [Read more...]