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Sospiro di Bisceglie

Sospiro di Bisceglie: a little sponge dome with vanilla cream and a sugar glaze

A feather-light sponge scented with lemon zest, piped into a small pointed dome, filled with vanilla pastry cream and wrapped in giulebbe, a fine sugar glaze. The bakers of the Slow Food Presidium share a protocol that favours free-range eggs, Puglia flours and lemons from around Bisceglie. Since 2014 it has also been a traditional agri-food product (PAT).

• A small pointed dome, shaped with a piping bag
• Soft, lemon-scented sponge around a heart of vanilla cream
• Fully cloaked in a thin giulebbe glaze; the nuns' original version was pink

How to enjoy it. Made all year round, it is a wedding sweet, at least in legend: guests kept waiting at Lucrezia Borgia's marriage are said to have been consoled with these very cakes.

Production areas

Apulia

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