Mediterranean Desserts Recipes

Written by Ines Zahraoui — Tunisian home cook and co-founder of The Mediterranean Recipe, developing and testing recipes in her own kitchen since 2020. More about Ines → Churros are ridged for a reason, and it is not decoration. Those grooves increase the surface area exposed to oil, which creates more crisp edges. They may … Read more

Ossi dei morti, fave dei morti and pan dei morti — the bakes Italy has made for 1 and 2 November for centuries. Recipes, regions and the traditions.

Dark, spiced Milanese biscuits packed with figs, raisins, cocoa and crushed amaretti. The moodiest bake of the season and made for 1 November.

Small chewy almond cookies shaped like broad beans, baked across Italy for All Souls’ Day. One bowl, no mixer, and they keep for a full two weeks.

The traditional Italian cookie baked for All Saints’ and All Souls’ Day, cracked into bone shapes. Four ingredients, no decorating, properly eerie.

Here’s what makes Orange & Olive Oil Muffins with Black Sesame actually exceptional — and what separates a great orange zest olive oil bake from a dry one: the sugar-zest rub. When you massage orange zest into sugar with your fingertips, you break the tiny oil sacs in the zest and coat every sugar crystal in citrus essence

This no-bake tiramisu soaks the ladyfingers in cold-brew Turkish coffee for deep flavor without sharp bitterness. Cold brew is less acidic than espresso, which helps keep the mascarpone filling smooth. The Story Behind This Recipe Chill the dessert ahead and serve nine portions straight from the refrigerator. Why This Cold Brew Turkish Coffee Tiramisu Recipe … Read more

A Blood Orange & Rosemary Polenta Cake pulls from a few Italian traditions at once — particularly amor polenta from Varese near Milan, and the olive oil cakes of Liguria. It’s equally at home at a dinner party with espresso or on a Tuesday afternoon with a cup of tea

I still remember the afternoon my yiayia placed a bowl of tiny, sun-warmed clementines on her kitchen table in Chania, the late winter light pouring through the window like liquid honey. The whole house smelled of citrus and cinnamon, and she was doing something I’d never seen before — dropping whole, unpeeled clementines into a … Read more

The hills above Chania smell like thyme in late winter — thymari the Cretans call it — and when I was eleven, my father and I used to walk out to my grandfather’s old taverna at first light with the fog still low over the sea, passing lemon trees heavy with fruit we weren’t meant … Read more