How to make the Panettone ripieno:
Cut in the bottom of the panettone a hole, making sure that the bottom part is intact.
Empty the panettone leaving about 1 inch from the exterior. Mix the wiped cream with the
chocolate morsels (quantity of morsels to suit your chocolate addiction
habits...) Sweeten it to your taste, add the "mollica" (interior part) of the
panettone to the cream, and use the mix to fill back the panettone. Close the
bottom with the original bottom piece, and refrigerate the stuffed panettone until consumption (a
few hours make it better). Sprinkle with confectionary sugar to add a twist.
Cut and serve the panettone ripieno cold, it's delicious
Panettone: the most traditional Italian Holiday Cake, a
specialty of Milan, the panettone has now reached all over Italy, and the
rest of the world also enjoys panettone at Christmas. This is a recipe for a
special panettone, a gourmet panettone recipe, a panettone stuffed
with wiped cream and chocolate morsels... !
Serves 8
A
bit of curiosity, if not history.
As panettone is the
best known and most loved Milanese specialty in the world, here is a short
legend about how it was invented.
One Christmas Eve
many years ago a banquet was being held at the court of Ludovico Sforza. There
was a festive atmosphere with music, singing and jesters performing. The lavish
dinner was expected to be crowned with a fabulous cake personally prepared by
the head cook and made to a most secret recipe of his. By mistake, or
inadvertently, the delicious cake burnt. In the kitchen, beside the desperate
head cook, Toni, a kitchen-hand, mixed the remains of the burnt cake with some
candied fruit, spices, eggs and sugar.
When the new cake
was ready he suggested the head cook should serve it. Despite its loaf-like
appearance, they had no alternative. So, arranged on a platter, the cake was
taken to the table where, after some initial perplexities, it had great,
unexpected success; even Ludovico himself congratulated the head cook on his
creation. This is how, the "pan-del-Toni" (Toni's bread), hence called panettone,
became the city's emblematic cake.
Another
version has that Toni made the special bread cake to win the hearth of the
daughter of his boss, you are free to choose the version you prefer, while you
taste your pan-del-Toni panettone.
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