The Sicilian cassata, from the Arabic quas'at, "bacinella" or from the Latin caseum, "cheese", is a traditional Sicilian cake based on sweetened ricotta (traditionally made from sheep's milk), sponge cake, royal paste and candied fruit.

It is a typical Sicilian production, as such it has been officially recognized and included in the list of traditional Italian food products (P.A.T.) of the Ministry of Agricultural, Food and Forestry Policies (Mipaaf), on the proposal of the Sicilian Region.

Our Sicilian cassata are packaged in an elegant box with typical Sicilian decorations.

Ingredients: fresh ricotta, sugar, sponge cake, chocolate, candied fruit, natural flavors

Shelf life: 3 days

Sicilian cannolo is one of the best known specialties of Italian pastry. As such it has been officially recognized and included in the list of traditional Italian food products (P.A.T) of the Ministry of Agricultural, Food and Forestry Policies (Mipaaf).

It consists of a waffle of fried dough (called scòrza and 15 to 20 cm long with a diameter of 4–5 cm) and a filling made from sheep's milk ricotta. On the filling are then added candied fruit and chocolate drops, and finally the cake is dusted with icing sugar.

Ingredients: flour, egg, wine, sugar, butter, fresh sheep's milk ricotta, natural flavors

Shelf life: 3 days at temperatures between + 2 ° C and + 10 ° C

The cassatella of Saint Agatha is in fact a small Sicilian cassata in the shape of small breasts. These are round-shaped cakes made with sponge cake soaked in rosolio and filled with ricotta, chocolate drops and candied fruit. Outside they are covered with white icing and finished with a candied cherry on top.

Ingredients: fresh ricotta, sugar, sponge cake, chocolate, candied fruit, natural flavors

Shelf life: 3 days at temperatures between + 2 ° C and + 10 ° C

Marzapane fruit or Martorana fruit (marturana fruit in Sicilian) is a typical Sicilian dessert (whose origin was in the Palermo area).

It is a cake famous in the world because its preparation and packaging provides, in the form and appearance at the end of the preparation process, the perfect imitation or reproduction of fruit and sometimes vegetables or fish.

Ingredients: almond, sugar, natural flavors.

Shelf life: 180 days

It is one of the most representative sweets of Sicily, where the pastry chefs work the almond in a traditional way with honey, to obtain a pure almond paste, which can also be flavored with lemon or orange as well as being coated with sugar to veil.

Our almond pastes are packaged in an elegant box with typical Sicilian decorations.

Ingredients: almond, sugar, honey, egg white natural flavors.

Shelf life: 30 days

The soft nougat with almonds is a classic Sicilian dessert made with a soft dough based on dried fruit, egg whites, sugar and honey.

This version of nougat, which is traditionally hard and crunchy, is soft and orange-scented, perfect also for the most demanding palates.

Ingredients: egg white, honey, almond, sugar, natural flavors

Shelf life: 120 days

On a marble slab runs the spatula-like tool underneath the almonds with boiling sugar and honey, thickening what we will call Torrone with the cold temperature of the marble.

In whatever way it is made (with almonds, with pistachio or with "ciciulena"), the nougat gives the air an unmistakable fragrance, to the point of becoming one of the typical smells of the days of the Agatine festivities.

Ingredients: almond, sugar, milk, candied fruit, natural flavors

Shelf life: 180 days

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Le olivette di sant'Agata (in siciliano alivetti o aliveddi ri Sant'Àjita) sono dei dolci tipici di Catania, preparati solitamente in gennaio e febbraio, prima e durante la festa della santa patrona, sant'Agata appunto. Si tratta di dolci a forma di oliva fatti di pasta di mandorla ricoperti di zucchero e colorati di verde.

Ingredienti: mandorle, zucchero, pistacchio, aromi naturali.

Durata della conservazione: 180 giorni

Chocolate orange rinds are simple and delicious sweets that can be found in pastry shops around the year, but which are even more common at Christmas time; among other things, if you let them dry well and packaged in sachets or small boxes for food, the chocolate orange peel become very welcome homemade Christmas gifts or genuine sweets to put in the Befana stocking.

Ingredients: orange, sugar, chocolate, natural flavors

Shelf life: 180 days