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🇮🇹Naples, Italy

Babà al Rum

Naples' sponge-like yeast cake soaked in rum syrup, often split and filled with pastry cream or ricotta. A Polish-origin cake adopted by Neapolitan pastry chefs.

🇮🇹Sicily, Italy

Brioche con gelato

In Sicily, Brioche con gelato is soft Sicilian brioche filled with gelato.

🇮🇹Sicily, Italy

Cannoli

Cannoli siciliani

Sicilian fried pastry tubes filled with sweetened sheep's milk ricotta, with candied fruit, pistachios, or chocolate chips. Filled to order so the shell stays crisp.

🇲🇨Monaco, Monaco

Easter Chard Pie

Torta Pasqualina

Layered chard pie, the centrepiece dish on Easter day in Monaco; Swiss chard layered with eggs, cheese, and herbs in a pastry crust; a Monegasque Easter tradition listed in Wikipedia's cuisine table.

🇮🇹Italy

Frappe di Carnevale

Thin crispy fried ribbons of sweet dough dusted with powdered sugar, eaten during Carnival across central Italy. Also called chiacchiere.

🇮🇹Rome, Italy

Maritozzo

Roman sweet bun filled with whipped cream.

🇮🇹Apulia, Italy

Panzerotti

Puglian crescent-shaped fried dough pockets filled with tomato and mozzarella, like a small fried calzone. A beloved street snack across southern Italy.

🇮🇹Naples, Italy

Pastiera Napoletana

Neapolitan Easter tart of shortcrust filled with cooked wheat berries, ricotta, eggs, candied fruit, and orange blossom water. A spring ritual.

🇮🇹Sardinia, Italy

Seadas

Sardinian fried semolina fritter with pecorino and honey.

🇮🇹Naples, Italy

Sfogliatella

Naples' clam-shaped pastry of many thin crisp leaves (riccia) or a softer shortcrust version (frolla), filled with semolina, ricotta, candied fruit, and cinnamon.

🇮🇹Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy

Strudel (Trentino-Alto Adige)

Strudel

Apple strudel of the Austrian tradition, adopted in Trentino-Alto Adige: thin pastry wrapped around apples, raisins, pine nuts, and cinnamon.

🇮🇹Naples, Italy

Struffoli

Neapolitan Christmas honey balls: tiny fried dough puffs coated in honey and decorated with candied sprinkles, piled into a mound.

🇮🇹Liguria, Italy

Torta della Nonna

Ligurian 'grandmother's tart' of shortcrust filled with lemon-zested custard and topped with pine nuts and powdered sugar.

🇮🇹Emilia-Romagna, Italy

Tortelli Fritti

Emilian Carnival fried sweet pastry puffs dusted with sugar, sometimes filled with cream or jam. Eaten warm at Carnival.

🇮🇹Naples, Italy

Zeppole

Fried choux/dough pastries for San Giuseppe, especially Naples and Rome.