It was a Christmas spent abroad about 10 years ago that I tasted my first panettone and promptly fell in love with the delicious Milanese Christmas dessert. Since then, this sweet yeasty cake like bread and its Veronese cousin, the pandoro have become staples during the Christmas season with my family. We used to have to buy them from Australia and everyone would be fighting over a few loaves of bread. It speaks volumes about the growing popularity of the panettone and the pandoro in Singapore nowadays where even modest neighbourhood supermarkets like NTUC stock them for Christmas.
This is our first panettone of the year and in my favourite flavour too, a Tre Marie handmade loaf covered with dark chocolate icing. Yes, it is as yummy as it looks. Actually, by the time I publish this post, the panettone is already, burp, gone.
Wah!! fish fish want one too. That's sure a temptation for a chocoholic fish~
Posted by: fish fish | December 01, 2004 at 09:22 AM
Hi ST, we like those pannettone too. Toasted a little and spread with a bit of butter. Yum.
Posted by: umami | December 01, 2004 at 10:03 AM
Haha fish fish, chocoholic cannot resist this panettone.
Hi umami, butter on top of chocolate? Talk about indulgence. Hehe.
Posted by: ST | December 01, 2004 at 01:26 PM
Hi ST,
I've never had this. There aren't any bakeries here that sell Italian pastries. At least not that I know of. Hmmm....maybe I can locate a recipe. =P
Posted by: Reid | December 01, 2004 at 04:24 PM
No ST, we don't like chocolate, so we get the classic type. But still indulgent.
Posted by: umami | December 01, 2004 at 09:17 PM
hi ST
The choc-coated panettone looks so luxuriously rich! huh!? what!? The panettone is all gone before you even finished with this post. Nooooo!!!! I want some of this too. :p
Think I am going to grab hold of a panettone for Christmas this year. It's my first xmas in Sydney ;-) Any suggestion on where I could grab a good one here?
Posted by: pinkcocoa | December 02, 2004 at 09:52 AM
Hi Reid, I have only tasted a freshly baked panettone once. I have a untried recipe for it. If you want it let me know.
umami, the classic plain type with butter sounds delicious. I have to give it a try
Hi pinkcocoa, You can go to the David Jones foodhall. Another good place will be the Norton Street Grocer in Norton Plaza at Norton Street, Leichhardt. Norton Street being the place to eat and buy Italian food.
Posted by: ST | December 02, 2004 at 11:40 PM
cheers ST ;-)
I bought a mini Tre Marie panettone on Saturday from the Growers' Market. Didnt spot any choc-coated panettone though.
Posted by: pinkcocoa | December 06, 2004 at 03:34 PM
Hello,
I like your longevity peach bun. My mother will celebrate her 80th birthday, but I can't find anyone make these beautiful buns in USA. I would like to make for for her special birthday, but I don't know how you make such a beautiful peach color. I was wondering if you would like to share with me your special technic. I can find the sweet bun recipe out of cook book, I just need to know how to decorate it that looks like peach. I hope you are willing to share your technic. Thank you!
Amy
Posted by: Amy | June 01, 2005 at 11:49 PM