chocolate cake with raisins and rum

Aggiungi didascalia

There are times when chocolate is even better, if only smelled. It 's like a  pleasure you only imagine; you absorb it only through the sense of smell.  This is when you make a chocolate cake: the kitchen is filled with bowls in a water bath with the melting chocolate, that spreads through the house its unique fragrance. Spreading the  glossy and smooth consistency of the chocolate on the surface of the cake is like a massage.

le castagnole di carnevale

Typical fried sweets in the period of carnival, the Italian Castagnole are made of a dough, then fried and made rolled on caster sugar. For the very greedies they are often stuffed with cream, ricotta or chocolate. Here is the recipe.