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Buccellato
Type Cake
Place of origin Italy
Region or state Sicily
Main ingredients Candied fruit

A buccellato (Italian: [buttʃelˈlaːto]) is a Sicilian circular cake made from pastry dough filled with figs and nuts. [1] In Sicily, it is traditionally associated with Christmas. [1] [2]

It is not to be confused with the distinct but similar traditional Lucchese cake of the same name, the buccellato di Lucca, although both are ring-shaped sweet breads that contain candied fruit peels. [3]

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References

  1. ^ a b Gillian Riley, The Oxford Companion to Italian Food ( Oxford University Press, 2004, p. 194.
  2. ^ Carol Field, Celebrating Italy ( W. Morrow and Company, 1990), p. 284.
  3. ^ Anna Del Conte, "Buccellato" in Gastronomy of Italy (rev. ed.: Pavilion Books, 2013).