Tuesday, December 10, 2024


 The absolute queen of Italian sweets, the cassata siciliana or the Sicilian cassata. This is the original one decorated with candied fruit and it has a coating of marzipan under the exterior velata or sugar coating. It is superb but a shot of insulin is recommended before eating it!

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