Best Italian sweets.

Here you will find the finest Italian sweets for your “Dolce Vita”. The sweet delicacies are as numerous and varied as Italian cuisine. Each region has its own sweet delicacies.

Lovingly selected and put together for you by our Cellini Caffè enjoyment enthusiasts.

When you think of sweets from Italy, the crispy cantuccini certainly come to mind. The almond biscuits will also be called Biscotti di Prato . They have their roots in Tuscany. They are crunchy biscuits with almonds that get their characteristic shape by cutting the baked strips of dough into small arc-shaped pieces while they are still warm.

What would Italian sweets be without the soft-baked amaretti that are often served with coffee? Its origin dates back to the Middle Ages in Italy. Macaroons spread throughout Europe during the Renaissance. They are made from sweet and bitter almonds with sugar, protein and apricot kernels.

An important part of Italian sweets are the melt-in-the -mouth Tartufi truffle pralines from Piedmont. The small masterpieces are inspired by the Piedmontese IGP hazelnut and are available in a wide variety of flavors.

For holidays like Christmas, you will also find airy and soft baked panettone and pandoro in this section, the Italian counterpart to the Christmas stollen, which is now also very popular in this country.

In Easter time you can find Colomba Pasquale here. Baked in the shape of a dove, the pastry specialty consists of a rich yeast dough with plenty of eggs. And is refined with a sugar glaze and whole almonds. Modern interpretations with special fillings have also become very popular.