Italian Crown

10/12 slices

• Description

  A cake made with brioche bread dough, a thin layer of apricot jam and candied cherries; during the preparation, the dough is first twisted on itself and then closed into a ring. It is a very delicate and complicated process, but it results in a beautiful shape for this soft and special cake.
  
  Particularly suitable for the festivities for its beautiful scenic appearance as well as for its sweet flavour.
  
  Recommended pairings:
  - Aleatico, coffee or smooth grappas

• History

  The recipe for this "rich" dessert was created by Ernesto Pandolfini around the 1930s; the candied cherries assorted inside the dough were green, white and red, in honor of the Italian flag.
  After a long suspension, mainly due to the complexity of its preparation, it was put back on sale in 2000, to celebrate the beginning of the new millennium.
  It is a traditional dessert, perfect for the festivities.
  It is only available in our historic shop in Prato and at our Bottega Museum in Florence.

• Ingredients

  Brioche dough (WHEAT flour, EGGS, BUTTER, sugar, natural yeast, salt), candied cherries (cherries, sugar, glucose syrup, fructose, sugar, colouring E 163- E104, tory E220), apricots jam (apricots, cane sugar, gelling, apple and lemon pectin, acidifier).
  
  May contain SOY, PISTACHIOS, HAZELNUTS, MUSTARD.

• Sizes
  Diameter

  20 cm

  Height

  6 cm
• Nutrition declaration
  Average quantity for

  100

  g

  ENERGY

  1510

  kj

  357

  kcal

  FAT

  of which saturates

  6.5

  g

  3.1

  g

  CARBOHYDRATE

  of which sugars

  67

  g

  36

  g

  FIBRE

  5.1

  g

  PROTEIN

  5

  g

  SALT

  0.24

  g