Buccellato

Buccellato

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

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]

See also

Media related to Buccellato at Wikimedia Commons

• List of Italian desserts and pastries
• List of cakes
• Buccellato di Lucca

References

1. 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).