Top 10 Tuscan Sweets
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1. Gelato
Florence makes the world’s best ice cream, a milk-and egg-yolk based frozen snack much denser and tastier than the packaged, air-fluffed “ice cream” made outside Italy. Make sure it’s produzione propria (home-made).
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2. Cantucci
Small, hard, half-moon almond biscuits – best from Prato – called biscotti outside Tuscany. Dip them in Vin Santo (a white dessert wine).
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3. Panforte
The world’s only decent fruitcake, a dense chewy nougat studded with fruits, nuts and spices.
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4. Torta della Nonna
The traditional, creamy “Grandmother’s pie”, topped with pinoli pine nuts.
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5. Ricciarelli
Thick, soft, chewy Sienese honey and almond paste cakes dusted with powered sugar.
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6. Zuppa Inglese
Florentine version of English trifle. Rum-soaked sponge cake stained red with alkermes liqueur and topped with pastry cream.
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7. Brutti ma Buoni
“Ugly but good” cakes, slightly chewy in a crisp shell.
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8. Ossi di Morti
Airy, brittle Sienese “bones of the dead” biscuits.
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9. Zuccotto
Florentine sponge cake stuffed with a mousse of chocolate, sweets and nuts.
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10. Pan Pepato
Medieval forerunner to Siena’s panforte , a dense spice cake sweetened with fruits and honey.
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