“Cicerchiata” cluster-cake is made up of tiny sweet dough fried beads. They are slathered with honey and decorated with almonds and colourful sugar bits. This cake is widely popular in Southern Italy, with subtle variations but with different names.
… Sweet Recipe: Orange Cicerchiata – It’s Carnival Season!
In Italy, the Holidays Season brings – along with the huge amount of to-dos everybody knows – the Hamletic doubt: panettone or pandoro?
… Letter “P” :: Panettone or Pandoro?
Cantucci: here’s a great recipe for a typical Italian cookies, with our Sara’s Cantucci Abruzzesi version. Originally from Tuscany, (also called “Prato biscuits”), their peculiarity is the double cooking: “bis-cuit”.
… Sweet Recipe: Sara’s Cantucci Abruzzesi
What happens in Bomba, a village of scarcely a thousand people in the Sangro area (Abruzzo), when a big wedding is on the way? It’s a Pasticciotto’s Story!
… The “Pasticciotto” Ladies from Bomba (Abruzzo)
To put it bluntly, I don’t like cakes, sweets, pastries and so forth. If I needed a treat, I’d rather go for a slice of pizza, some “pane bruschettato” or some focaccia. But. (There’s always a “but” in a categorical statement as the one above). I didn’t like sweets much until someone (may he be blessed a thousand times) introduced me to a pastry tart called bocconotto.
… #PastryNotes :: “Bocconotti di Castelfrentano” A bit of Heaven
Photo: Alexey Tryaskov.
Food Styling: Orsola Ciriello Kogan.
Images courtesy of Eksmo Publishing Russia.