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Panettone is becoming extremely popular in the United Kingdom. Panettone is a large, round festive yeast bread cake flavoured with candied fruit peels and raisins which make it taste great and delicious. The classic version of Panettone originated in Milan, Italy, however there are variations of this Italian bread cake now found all over Italy and the rest of the world as well.

Panettone is baked in a special tubular mould to give it height and usually packaged in beautifully and tall decorated boxes. The panettone bread cake is usually served in slices, vertically cut, as a dessert, ideally accompanied by a delicious sweet wine that would go perfectly with the sweetness of the Italian bread cake. Italian panettone can obviously also be toasted and spread with butter or cheese for breakfast or used to make a wonderful French toast. At this point we can eat it the way we want depending on our taste and obviously the time of the day you are eating it. This Italian bread is sometimes also used in place of bread in a bread and butter pudding.

Panettone is traditionally eaten at Christmas and Easter, but also for celebrations such as weddings and christenings which makes it more a celebration cake than an everyday cake. During the Christmas season Italians actually eat panettone at breakfast with coffee, between meals with Marsala wine, and after dinner with spumante. A Christmas without panettone in Italy would probably not be a good Christmas.

The origins of Panettone are quite sketchy, but one romantic legend says that in the late fourteen hundred, a young Milanese nobleman fell in love with the daughter of a baker named Toni. In an attempt to win the father’s approval, the young man decided to create a special sweet bread filled with fruits and other rich ingredients. After this event, locals began to call the bread “pan ad Toni” or Toni’s bread which slowly turned into the current name, panettone.

Nowadays Panettone can be brought from any online Italian delicatessen and some larger supermarkets in the United Kingdom and other countries outside Italy, although they are generally only available seasonally at the end of the year or around March and April. One famous online Italian delicatessen which also has a London shop that sells freshly made panettone is Luigi’s. It is also a place where you can buy Italian food online thanks to their website.