Panettone!

[Peashoots]

What is it? What do you do with it? 😁 I see it every year in the shops but have never tried it. Is it bread? Cake? Do you just eat it as it is or make a recipe with it? Someone please enlighten me 🎅🏼

Good grief 😋

Love it - either just eaten as a wedge straight from the loaf, or lightly toasted and buttered. The Aldi one last year was v good.

Colomba 🤢

There have been very few advantages to DS’s nut allergy but having a watertight reason to decline the endless columbe was a silver lining.

Love panettone. Jamie Oliver has a great recipe for using it up

...is over-rated. But does make good bread and butter pudding.

Marks & Spencer sell a lovely Italian one which is amazing (if you like panettone, which we do)

It just gets regifted and regifted forever no?

My Italian neighbour buys me one every year. Delicious!

I don’t think I actually know any Italians who like it. OTOH they go mad for hot cross buns when I take them over.

I'm with you OP! No idea! But I did see Jamie Oliver make a bread and butter pudding (with dark chocolate) with one once, and it was flipping delicious.

I bought the small one from Aldi today, haven’t tried it yet. If it’s good I will buy the big one. They also do a chocolate chip one.

I would agree but my husband actually claims to like it! He doesn't like my baking at all as he finds my cakes too rich and moist. 😂

It is delicious - a really light fruit cake... a bit like brioche but drier. I haven't tried a chocolate one, just the traditional fruit ones. Traditionally you have it with coffee and mascarpone but I love it dipped in a really rich hot chocolate / with chocolate sauce or chocolate spread. It also makes a really yummy bread and butter pudding.

If I could spend my whole life just eating panettone, I would.

I love it and always eat it for Xmas breakfast. Costa coffee shops sell little ones all year round....makes me happy.

I absolutely love it, but some are definitely nicer than others.

To me it's a breakfast food and I don't put anything on it, I just cut an enormous chunk and inhale it with my mug of tea.

I prefer a pandoro - can't stand orange peel!

We have it for Christmas breakfast.

I like it cut in wedges and spread with unsalted butter.

Or dipped in coffee.

Relevant info:

www.goodhousekeeping.com/uk/food/food-reviews/g37525783/best-panettone/

I generally think dressed-up chocolate etc. ones are a bit overrated though. Give me plain old classic any day.

I love it. Tk maxx often have good ones and I like one of the ones costco do too. I don't like the supermarket ones.

It’s delicious, I love it for breakfast with a cup of coffee or dunked in hot chocolate. We open ours and leave it on the kitchen table with a big knife so you can just slice off a chunk each time you go past, not great if you’re trying to diet.

Agree! Don't often buy it but definitely traditional for me.

My husband serves it with marsala. Still not too keen on it

Its not a cake as such. It’s a sweet enriched dough - so a bit like brioche - usually with candied fruit inside. We have it for breakfast on Christmas morning with a Buck’s Fizz.

"Dry Italian cake. You see them around." 😅

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