These words were Bill's description of Erin, Missy, and my evening, in celebration of finishing our classes in Rome. As a matter of fact, it was a great Bennie night!
On Via Regina Margherita, near our apartments, there's a pasticceria with the most delicious looking desserts (and really good coffee!). For a few weeks now, we've been planning on stopping by, buying a few, then splitting them. Tonight, the three of us bought a total of 16 small desserts and enjoyed them with a glass of wine from our trip to the vineyard ("to cleanse the palate"). Here's the list, in order:
1. Chocolate sprinkle ball with rum-tasting chocolate filling (i.e. The Rumble)
2. A cream-filled tartlet with three tiny strawberries on top
3. Vanilla dipped sandwich cookie with chocolate filling
4. Nutella and smarties tartlet (smarties here are like M&M's, not the powdery candy)
5. Nutella filled cornetto with green chocolate flakes (maybe pistachio flavored?)
6. Amaretto flavored chocolate filled tartlet
7. Chocolate moose filled eclair with a chocolate covered top
8. Green, white, and red blob, fondant wrapped, nasty fruity thing
9. Crunchy pastry shell with Nutella filling and white piping
10. Pink grapefruit-esque sandwich cookie with vanilla filling
11. Cream filled cornetto with pistachios on top (very strong egg taste...we thought it would be a good breakfast dessert)
12. Oval pastry shell with white, milk, and dark chocolate filling
13. Another vanilla dipped sandwich cookie (those were really good!)
14. Cannoli with pistachios on top
15. Square, hard, cookie-like pastry "bowl" filled with Nutella and white chocolate, topped with a chocolate triangle sticking upwards
16. The "Christmas Tree," which appeared to be a mini sugar cone dipped in chocolate, then covered with sprinkles and nuts
While most of the desserts were delizioso, our favorites were the cream filled tartlet with strawberries as well as the vanilla-dipped sandwich cookies. Close seconds included the Smarty tartlet and chocolate mousse-filled eclair. I'd say it was a pretty tasty evening!
