Small Mantovana Cake

Cake 4 slices

• Description

  A soft, orange flavored butter cake, made with free-range eggs, flour and sugar, and covered with almond grains.
  
  Just like a homemade cake, it is best enjoyed within the first few 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'.

• Ingredients

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

• Sizes
  Diameter

  16.5 cm

  Height

  4 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

  After a few days the cake regains its natural softness if slightly heated.