Easy and genuine cake recipes? Natalia Cattelani’s homemade desserts

There are so many memories of our childhood linked to scents and flavors. Entering the kitchen in the morning and smelling the aroma of the cake being cooked in the oven in the air, perhaps the same one that our grandmother prepared for us a long time ago, immerses us in distant images, but at the same time alive and clear, of the hours spent at our grandparents’ house when we were little.

Traditional family desserts are an indispensable ingredient of Sunday lunches, family celebration days, they are the ones that make us smile as soon as we see and taste them.

For this reason, I greatly appreciated the recipe book by Natalia Cattelani , our dear friend, whom I imagine many of you know from her blog Tempodicottura.it and her constant participation as a cooking teacher in the Prova del Cuoco, the Rai 1 program hosted by Antonella Clerici.

Natalia is a special woman and mother, I had the pleasure of meeting her several years ago with her family, during a work commitment, and it was friendship at first sight. Friendship that also led us to the drafting of the book ” The recipes of fertility “.

She is as we see her on TV or in the videos she publishes on her blog, cordial, extremely helpful, kind… one of those people who, once you get to know them, enter your heart.

Home sweets

The book I dolci di casa  by Natalia Cattaleni, published by RaiEri, is dedicated to those like me who love simple, tasty, traditional sweets, easy to prepare perhaps with what is in the pantry, to take to parties, or for sweeten a coffee, or to spread the scent of freshly baked cake around the house on Sunday morning at breakfast…

Natalia’s sweets are family sweets, in the true sense of the word, because they are handed down by aunts and grandmothers, and because sweets born in her family, within the walls of the house, and rigorously tested by her husband and four daughters.

In short, when you prepare a Natalia dessert you are on the safe side!

For example, we love his biscuits and tarts, but in the book you will find answers and solutions for every occasion!

Here are some examples:

The book consists of thematic chapters: family desserts, curious cakes, tarts, soft desserts, easy and very easy desserts, flaky cakes, leavened desserts, desserts dedicated to those with intolerances, and the fantastic 8 , the cookies you can’t resist. For example, try the corn donuts, they are PHENOMENAL! And donuts? Superlatives!!

In the book you will not only find recipes but also tips and tricks of the trade. How to cook a dessert if the oven is ventilated? What if it’s static?

And how to whip cream without splashing or prevent sweets from sticking to the pan? In short, a real manual that you can’t not have among your recipe books.

It also represents a beautiful gift idea, to give to friends or to your mother.