I haven't had any for years but I used to love Raspberry cream turnovers
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...and french cream horns...
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How come I could eat those and stay slim... yet if I even look at a chip today I put on 1/2 a pound ?
They really are CC>.....it's made me want one now..lol
Panettone
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Although I see it frequently I have never tried it...what’s it taste like??
Sweet but not overly, sort of vanilla, very tender, like a brioche, usually it had raisins or some other finely chopped fruit. I have never been able to cut it really, we just pull hunks off. It's popular hre at holidays. You wold love it. Some people even spread it with soft butter.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=panettone...w.alimentipedia.it/files/images/panettone.jpg
As Easter gets closer you'll see it more.
Ill watch for it...I want the fresh one not one that’s been sitting in a box for months.
I hate panettone RR ..yukkk!! .. and I don't know about over the pond, but you just can't buy small panettone's here..they're all wayyy too big for one person.. It always tastes horrbly dry to me,,, and although it's supposed to be Italian, it's nothing like the italian fruit bread you get in Italy...
here's what one of our Broadsheet food critics says about it...
But the fad that really tests my tastebuds at this time of year is panettone, the Italian part-bread, part-cake monstrosity that fills the shelves of every Italian deli and supermarket throughout November and December, and is, inevitably on sale for a knock-down price right up until spring. It is, for some inexplicable reason, packed in plastic, then encased in a box you could fit a family of four in. It takes up every spare inch of space as you will know if you have ever had the misfortune to buy or be given one, and it tastes like Gandhi's flip-flop after three months in the desert. No one actually likes this so-called Christmas delicacy, but few will admit it. Folk lumbered with one will go to great lengths to disguise it - you only have to look up "recipes for panettone" to see what I mean - panettone French toast. Panettone trifle. Toasted panettone. Panettone bread pudding. No wonder it has to be lashed with booze and cream. I am deeply suspicious of any food item that is only ever wheeled out once a year. If it was so good we would be eating it all the time.
I always seem to get a pannetone given to me at Christmas, possibly because I am known to love the food of Italy. But panettone tastes about as Italian as ham and pineapple thick-crust pizza.
Last year I took the unwanted item to a neighbour when invited round for a seasonal drink and she begged me to take it away because it was too big to chuck in the bin.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/24/panettone-festive-delicacy-italian-monstrosity
I will have to do a taste test now as soon as I see one that’s fresh...I’ve only seen them in huge boxes.