Neapolitan Cookies – A traditional Italian cookie with liberties to flavor the pink and white as you wish.

Chocolate Biscotti – Made with a little butter. My Italian grandma would shudder, “It’s not traditional!”

The wonderful authentic Italian Cream Cake Recipe – plated by an overzealous syrup artist.

Mint Brownie Recipe – My 20 year stand-by favorite. Hit it with an optional pinch of anise and cloves for an Italian twist.

This Arnold Palmer Recipe has two versions. The 2 ingredient kids version. And the grown-up version with a kick of limoncello.

Amaretto Cake. Deceptively easy. Elegantly served. Prepared from a cake mix.

Amaretto Chocolate Sour Cream Frosting

Amaretto Vodka Peach Schnapps. No fancy name. Just a good drink.

Sour Apple Martini with an Italian twist – sour apple, amaretto, and vanilla vodka

Chocolate Amaretto Bundt Cake – A cake mix with amaretto and morsels. Finished with an amaretto chocolate sour cream frosting.

Amaretto Tea – Chai to a whole new level. Amaretto, tea and cream.

Chocolate Buttermilk Cake.

Blue Lagoon – the combo of amaretto and blue curacao plus lime give this a gorgeous color and a great flavor!

Amaretto Mousse Cheesecake. No bake. Amaretto, cream cheese, whipped cream and a few other normal ingredients.

Soco Amaretto Lime – Amaretto, fresh lime juice, and peach schnapps.

Cafe Amaretto – A *manly* after dinner drink. Amaretto, coffee, cognac and cream.

Rob Roy Recipe. A classic cocktail with no deviations – scotch, angostura bitters, and sweet vermouth.

Kahlua and Cream the Italian way. Add a little amaretto!

Blueberry Cake – Olive oil, butter, orange lemon and lime zest.

Beer Cake with rum soaked raisins. Take this to your next picnic when asked, “Can you bring the beer?”

Double Chocolate Brownies. A little anise, nutmeg and tons of chocolate all made in a saucepan on the stove.

A classic kamikaze cocktail with a basil twist