Buccellato

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Buccellato

Italian Christmas cake

A buccellato (Italian: [buttʃelˈlaːto]) is a Sicilian circular cake made from pastry dough filled with figs and nuts.[1] In Sicily, it is traditionally associated with Christmas.[1][2]

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It is not to be confused with the distinct but similar traditional Lucchese cake of the same name, the buccellato di Lucca, although both are ring-shaped sweet breads that contain candied fruit peels.[3]

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References

  1. [1]
    Gillian Riley, The Oxford Companion to Italian Food (Oxford University Press, 2004, p. 194.
  2. [2]
    Carol Field, Celebrating Italy (W. Morrow and Company, 1990), p. 284.
  3. [3]
    Anna Del Conte, "Buccellato" in Gastronomy of Italy (rev. ed.: Pavilion Books, 2013).


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