I talked my sister and her family into meeting me in The Berkshire’s for a post Christmas rendezvous, afterwards we headed back to Connecticut where she lives and spent a lively New Years Eve with our friends Kristin and Stew. Dinner was a group effort: K&S made the short ribs and roasted brussels sprouts, (which [...]

Panettone is Italian Christmas cake, it is egg and butter enriched brioche type dough studded with dried fruits. For Italians the smell and taste of panettone is Christmas – it is given as a gift and eaten Christmas morning for breakfast. In Italy they are beautifully wrapped and hung in shop store windows.

Here is my attempt at the Danish cake from my previous post. I had to take two tries at it to get it as good as the version I had. The first one was a bit too cakey, not quite as cookie like as the original version – but edible none-the-less! I tweaked it and [...]