Italiano Home

Real Taste of Tuscany by Communicart.it

CHOOSE YOUR MAP, GUIDE YOUR LIFE

communicart.it

A Great Reason for Every Season. Florence & Tuscany
Corner
Our Videos
Choose from our great insider's tips... to make your own personalized guide to Tuscany
MY GUIDE
«

Schiacciata Alla Fiorentina, Florentine Carnival Cake

SCHIACCIATA ALLA FIORENTINA

Florentine Carnival Cake

 

This is a flat cake traditionally made during carnival.

It’s so good we can’t get enough of it!

 

The most traditional recipes actually call for lard, and use live yeast as the raising agent, but we substitute the lard with olive oil and yeast with self raising flour, making the preparation of this cake a lot easier. Because of the lard, it was once called schiacciata unta.

Florentine pastry chefs often present it as a layer cake with whipped cream or crema pasticcera (pastry cream). Both ways are absolutely delicious!

 

Tell a friend, A Real Taste friend!

Enter your name and email and the name and email of your friend.

CAPTCHA code

Message to send to your friends: (we will automatically insert the property name and a link to the web page so you do not need to repeat that information in your message)

Tell a friend!

tips

events

recipes

Post

REALTASTEOFTUSCANY.COM is a COMMUNICART.IT project ©2013
Communicart.it sas - Viale Machiavelli, 5 50125 Florence-Italy P.I. 04859320485
e-mail: info@realtasteoftuscany.com