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Canestrelli
Canestrelli
Canestrelli
The flavor is delicious and irreistibile the canestrelli are a type of sweet renowned throughout the Italian territory, especially in Liguria and Piedmont. Given their spread can find this delicious kind of cookies in different variants: the canestrelli of Biella, for example, are made up of two waffles with a topping of chocolate and hazelnuts, which is crispy wafer and is obtained from wheat flour and corn, processed with sugar, butter, eggs, salt and baking powder and dust, therefore, are intended for those who love intense flavors and delicious. Typical of the alpine valleys, however, are the biscuits wafer thin and very brittle and these types of very delicious canestrelli can be anise, vanilla, lemon or chocolate. Simple ingredients of flour, eggs, butter, sugar and shaped like a small daisy with a hole in the center, and covered with powdered sugar which helps to give a special flavor to the cookie, the canestrelli are typical of Liguria and, not surprisingly, are nationally recognized as Product Agribusiness Traditional Italian. Still, scallops Novi are exclusively manufactured by craftsmen in the area of Novi and Ovada, differing substantially from those in Liguria for the ingredients used: mixed without eggs, butter and water, but olive oil and white wine Cortese di Gavi, constitute only a delight for those who love sweet flavors and intense. Among the other types of canestrelli, those Taggia are similar to donuts wide taralli Puglia and, for the most demanding, the scallops are also other variants of Taggia recently introduced as the addition of chocolate chips on the cookie or variants with olives . Finally, the canestrelli tonenghesi are characterized by the presence in the mixture of lemon zest and wedding cakes were typical of the area, and it is no coincidence that they are the protagonists of annual festivals and events around the Canavese.
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