Buccellato
Appearance
Type | Cake |
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Place of origin | Italy |
Region or state | Sicily |
Main ingredients | Candied fruit |
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]
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]
See also
[edit]Media related to Buccellato at Wikimedia Commons
References
[edit]- ^ a b Gillian Riley, The Oxford Companion to Italian Food (Oxford University Press, 2004, p. 194.
- ^ Carol Field, Celebrating Italy (W. Morrow and Company, 1990), p. 284.
- ^ Anna Del Conte, "Buccellato" in Gastronomy of Italy (rev. ed.: Pavilion Books, 2013).