Easter Mantovana Cake

approximately 800 g

• Description

  The Mantovana is a soft, orange flavored butter cake, made with free-range eggs, flour and sugar, and covered with almond grains.
  During the Easter period, it is also baked in the shape of a Dove.
  
  Just like a homemade cake, it is best enjoyed within the first days of it being made and in any case within the recommended dates.
  
  Recommended pairings:
  - Coffee or Tea
  - Moscato d'Asti, fruit extracts

• History

  In 1875 two nuns from Mantua, during a pilgrimage to Rome, were hosted by Antonio Mattei: to thank him for the hospitality, they gifted him the recipe for this cake which takes its name from their city.
  Antonio Mattei made his own version of this recipe, the one still on sale in our stores, and also celebrated by Pellegrino Artusi in his famous 1891 book 'Science in the kitchen with the art of eating well'.
  
  The historic cake has been baked even in the shape of a heart on the days around Valentine’s Day since 2015.

• Ingredients

  EGGS, WHEAT flour, BUTTER, sugar, natural orange flavor, ALMONDS, raising agent (disodium diphosphate, sodium bicarbonate, wheat STARCH).
  
  May contain SOY, PISTACHIOS, HAZELNUTS, MUSTARD.
  
  Icing sugar sachet: sugar, WHEAT starch, vanillin.

• Sizes
  Width

  20 cm

  Height

  7 cm

  Depth

  28 cm
• Nutrition declaration
  Average quantity for

  100

  g

  ENERGY

  2000

  kj

  487

  kcal

  FAT

  of which saturates

  31

  g

  16

  g

  CARBOHYDRATE

  of which sugars

  40

  g

  17

  g

  FIBRE

  2.2

  g

  PROTEIN

  10

  g

  SALT

  0.12

  g
• Notes

  Mantovana is a fresh cake, we recommend you to enjoy it within 12 days of it being made, the date will be printed on the label.. After a few days the cake regains its natural softness if slightly heated.