You might be reading this with your favorite Christmas song playing in the background, looking for excitingly exquisite treats to deck out your festive sweet-snacking menu. While cooking at home might sound fun and, for some of us, equally challenging, some things are best left to professionals, and if you’re one of them, welcome, your royal highness. So, we got to thinking: what is the absolute must-have treat we always crave but is unbelievably easy to mess it up when trying to master it? Well, it's panforte for us. If you’ve not had the luxury of meeting this Italian delight in person, you’re in for a treat! Panforte is a meeting point of cake and candy, a total dream come true for all of the foodies with a crazy sweet tooth.
The mysterious-looking, chewy panforte cake comes in various flavors, but it also takes nearly two hours to make from scratch, and during the first half, you’re not even sure how it will turn out. The fabled Italian Christmas cake is pleasantly dense at heart and addictively chewy, and, we guess, this juxtaposition is what makes it incredibly popular and sought-after around the world. The ultimate concoction of fruity and nutty flavors owes its origin to Siena, and we’re going to tell you all about how it was born, but that’s not all. We’re going to finish off with a couple of our favorite panforte cakes to look for if you’re determined to greet the new year with Italian gourmet flair!
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