Penna Bakery - Delicious Pistacchio Panettone

This one arrives with an accessory. Alongside the panettone comes a piping bag filled with spreadable pistachio cream, so each slice can be finished at the table exactly as generously as the person eating it wants. It is a small piece of pastry-shop theater, and it works.

The cake underneath does not need the help. Penna Bakery raises it on mother yeast alone, over a long slow fermentation that makes it strikingly light and easy to digest, and studs the dough with pistachio cremino — white chocolate blended with pure pistachio paste. The dome is then coated in Valrhona white chocolate and showered with chopped pistachios, which give every bite a clean, resinous crunch against the sweetness.

As with everything the two brothers bake in Santa Maria di Leuca, at the southern tip of Puglia, the list of what's absent matters: no preservatives, no pre-made bases, no artificial flavorings, no vegetable fats. Soft wheat flour, butter, fresh pastured egg yolks, acacia honey and Madagascar bourbon vanilla from whole pods — nothing else.

A showpiece dessert for a holiday table, and an easy gift for anyone who has already fallen for pistachio in every other form.

What's inside: 1 panettone + 1 piping bag of spreadable pistachio cream

Packaging: 1 panettone of 1 kg / 2.20 lb

Storage: store in a cool and dry place, away from heat sources. Keep out of direct sunlight and avoid temperature swings.