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Spiced muffins with almonds and cream

Pubblicato il by undolcealgiorno
Spiced muffins with almonds and cream

This recipe mixes the italian taste with the american/anglosaxon one!
The italian taste is of course represented by almonds and cream, while the anglosaxon by spices and muscovado sugar which is inside the muffins.
I prepared this muffins for some friends of mine who are really “picky” 😛
One is allergic to nickel, so when I have to prepare a cake for him I’m always in panic. I cannot use chocolate, cocoa, wholewheat flour, shell fruit (nuts, pine nuts, hazelnuts).
the only ones I can use are almonds, which are tolerated by allergic people…
The other one (my boyfriend :P) doesn’t like dried fruit and fresh fruit….so as you can understand I was in real troubles.
I built this recipe specifically for them, trying to create something good with the few elements I had, and I have to admit it worked!!!
Those muffins were soft and spongy thanks to the cream, had a crunchy surface thanks to the almonds, and an intense flavour, because I put ginger and cinnamon to spice them.
The brown colour is given by the muscovado sugar, no wholemeat flour was killed for the making of this muffins.

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A cake a day – English section of the blog

Pubblicato il by undolcealgiorno
Salati per caso - una nuova sezione del blog

here we are, ready to start this new adventure!!! “A cake a day” the english section of the blog!!!
i’m not a native english speaker, so forgive me if my english is not perfect! i’ll try to do my best! i’ve studied english only at school and italians aren’t universally known for their skills in languages 😛
i’ve practiced a little at the place where i work, but the greatest school for me was the wordwideweb, where i could talk to people and meet new friends.
of course my english is far away from perfection, so be patient please!!!
even if they aren’t good at languages, italians are known for their cooking abilities, so i hope you will find something interesting in my blog (and that this will make even with the mistakes :P)
the name of the blog “Un dolce al giorno” means “A cake a day” because we have a famous italian saying which is: “una mela al giorno toglie il medico di torno”.
translated in english sounds something like this: “an apple a day takes the doctor away” because apples are a very healthy food. this is of couse a wordplay because cakes are not considered such an healthy food but they are damn good!!!
the love for baking also helped me in a very hard period of my life, so it was a sort of cure for me.
soooo…let’s start this new section, you will find italian traditional cakes here….but also some of the anglosaxon/american tradition, seen through the eyes of an italian, revisited a little bit to be adapted to our taste.

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