Buccellato Explained

Buccellato
Country:	Italy
Region:	Sicily
Type:	Cake
Main Ingredient:	Candied fruit

A buccellato (pronounced as /it/) 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

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

Notes and 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).