9Panettone

During the Christmas season in Italy, you can’t step foot in a grocery store without encountering mounds of square boxes with pre-made Panettone cakes of every flavor. This dome-shaped cake is a specialty of Milan, and is made using candied fruits and cake leavened with yeast. 

Although it dates back much further, the Panettone cake became especially popular after World War I when the Milanese baker, Antonio Motta, made the dough rise three times before baking, giving the famous cake a very light flavor and its trademark dome shape. Now his name graces the label of many of those supermarket boxes. Origin: Milan in Lombardy

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