How to reuse Easter colomba to prepare recipes for different desserts. From tiramisu to fruit dessert, from spoon desserts to zabaglione. Here are many tips for using leftover colomba.
The colomba , together with the chocolate egg, is one of the typical Easter desserts ; even if it is a traditional dessert, the colomba is very often overlooked by diners because after the sumptuous meal it is not among the most anticipated desserts.
To make the colomba more appetizing, it can be accompanied by various creams, it can be filled with creams or ice cream or it can be reinvented and used as a base for other preparations: in any case, the classic colomba will be transformed into a new dessert that everyone will want to taste. But let’s see in detail how to reuse the Easter colomba by giving you some suggestions.
Spoon desserts with cream, whipped cream or chocolate
Leftover colomba, reduced to crumbs, can be used to make nice desserts. All you need to do is create thin layers of colomba, soaked in syrups based on liqueur and cream. As an alternative to whipped cream, you can use chocolate creams, custard, hazelnut creams or coffee creams.
Easter dove cake
The simplest idea is to cut the colomba horizontally (one or two layers), stuff it and reassemble it or serve it in slices on a plate accompanied by cream. The filling or accompaniment, depending on taste, can be based on whipped cream (you can add pieces of fruit), chocolate or Nutella (with the addition of chopped hazelnuts or other pieces of candied orange), custard or chantilly. Here’s how to prepare the custard:
- Beat 6 egg yolks with 125 g of sugar until the mixture is frothy.
- Add 60 grams of sifted flour (or starch) and then slowly incorporate 1/2 litre of milk previously brought to the boil with a vanilla pod
- Cook the cream over low heat, stirring until it reaches the desired consistency. If you add 2.5 dl of whipped cream to the cold custard prepared in this way, you will obtain chantilly cream.
Zabaglione recipe with leftover Colomba
Those who love creams but also fruit can find the right compromise in the strawberry zabaglione with which to fill or accompany the colomba on the plate. Here are the ingredients:
- 4 fresh organic egg yolks
- 600 g of sugar
- half a glass of fortified wine
- dove leftovers
Here’s how to make zabaglione with leftover colomba:
- Beat 4 egg yolks with 60 grams of sugar and add half a glass of fortified wine (Moscato, Marsala, Porto, Malaga, Madeira)
- Cook the zabaglione in a bain-marie for 4-5 minutes while continuing to whisk and then cool by immersing the bowl halfway in water.
- Blend 6 ripe strawberries with 2-3 tablespoons of the same wine used for the zabaglione
- On the serving dish, accompany the slice of colomba by adding the zabaglione on top or alongside, on which you can create a spiral or geometric designs with the strawberry smoothie.
Strawberry tiramisu recipe with leftover colomba
To create a new dessert based on colomba we can use it as a base to prepare a strawberry tiramisu .In strawberry tiramisu, instead of ladyfingers or sponge cake, you can use layers of colomba. The recipe is listed in the article at the end of the page.
Fruit cake recipe with leftover colomba
With the same principle as tiramisu, we can use the colomba to make a fruit cake. Instead of mascarpone, use chantilly cream. You can alternate layers of colomba with layers of fruit salad drowned in chantilly cream. The fruit should be cut into very small pieces so as to give space to the flavor of the chantilly. The layers of colomba can be moistened with a syrup made from water, sugar and a couple of teaspoons of Strega liqueur. For the recipe: how to make chantilly cream .
The dessert made with leftover colomba cake, prepared in this way, can be presented in small cups, beautiful single portions dusted with icing sugar or garnished with whipped cream.
Leftover Colomba Muffins Recipe
An original idea to recycle the colomba is given by Easter Muffins. You can prepare Muffins with leftover colomba to serve for breakfast or an afternoon snack.
The recipe is easy. All you need to do is crumble 150 grams of colomba, add 250 ml of liquid cream for desserts and 2 egg yolks, mixing until the mixture is smooth. Butter the muffin molds, pour the mixture almost to the edge and bake at 180°C for 20-25 minutes.
Other recipes to use leftover Colomba
For those who haven’t read it, we also point out our article on how to recycle Easter dove cake in which we presented three other tasty recipes:
- Tiramisu Recipe with Leftover Colomba Cake
- Apple Pie Recipe with Leftover Colomba
- Ice cream cake recipe with leftover colomba
