Q: I am looking for a recipe that my mother-in-law made at holidays. She called it the Italian name for rice pudding. It was rice pudding with whiskey and almonds in it, and was baked in a 9-by-13 pan ...

This recipe is my own but at the same time a conflation of a couple of Italian Christmas must-haves: the glorious, fruit-studded panettone and crema di mascarpone, which is best described as tiramisu ...