Five pastry shops where you can eat Easter focaccia in Venice, but not only, also the Venetian sweets that characterize the festivities in Veneto.
If the Easter cake Italian is the dove, it is also true that every region, if not every city and town, has its own specialty to celebrate Easter and the arrival of spring. He cannot escape this rule either Venezia.
It will be because of the cocoa and spices that reached the Serenissima from the various oriental markets, or perhaps because of the pure water that comes down from the mountains behind the lagoon, it will be because the lords and ladies of the Venetian Republic loved to have coffee, chocolate and sweets, the result is that if you plan to go to Venice and not be tempted by the windows of its bakers e confectioners, you make a huge mistake.
And for Easter you can't really miss the typical dessert, the "cake", O "fugassa”, Which is anything but a thin salty“ bread ”. There focaccia of Venice it is a sweet dome, a soft hill, soft, because it has risen for a long time.
In some cases covered with vanilla sugar and almonds, in others only with sugars, it is still delicious and goes beautifully with both tea and cappuccino, but also with vin santo to stay on the subject.
These are the 5 pastry shops and / or bakeries in Venice where you can find the best, as well as other specialties to make your Easter even sweeter.
Rizzardini bakery
La Rizzardini bakery since 1742 it is a delicacy corner located halfway between Campo San Polo and Campo San Silvestro.
Maybe from the outside it will not seem like a magical cave, but try to enter and not only the focaccia of Venice they produce will fill you with its aroma, but the whole galaxy of pastries, pastries and cake slices with ricotta, drops of chocolate and fruit will bewitch you.
Their focaccia is very soft and covered with powdered sugar and sugars.
And if you happen to be during the Carnival period, expect long queues for one of them pancakes covered in sugar and with the heart of Chantilly cream, zabaglione, mascarpone cream and various jams.
In short, this is the historical address of Venetian gluttons.
Nono Colussi bakery
Hidden in Calle Lunga San Barnaba is the bakery Nono Colussi.
Il Mr Colussi is in the bakery from late at night until noon and then comes back around 18pm.
The ladies, on the other hand, have been running the shop for years.
The focaccia del Nono Colussi is a gem: high, soft, the butter can be felt, it envelops you but does not tire you, it melts in your mouth, but above all you can find the "fugassa" both from 1 kg and smaller so that it can always remain fresh and fragrant whether you give it to the family around the Easter table or to a couple of friends for a delicious weekend breakfast.
And if you go to the store under Easter, at that point also try the chocolate eggs and the orange and lime marmalade: it's really worth it.
Dal Mas pastry shop
You can find it in Rio TerĂ , towards Rialto and you will be immediately attracted by the shop windows both on Easter and on any other day.
More than focaccia, here you go for the "Dove"And the"Columbine"But above all for the"Dessert of the Doge”Which is a dessert made from flour, sugar, butter, eggs, dried figs, nuts, honey and milk. According to tradition, the "Pan del Doge”Was always present on Doge Valier's table.
In short, an Easter dedicated to tradition of the Serenissima.
Noble pastry shop
What to say: find here the focaccia, but also the cookies that better marry with focaccia, because if someone doesn't love this light, soft, fluffy cloud, what do you do?
Here is the alternative, take the focaccia but don't forget to take some typical Venetian biscuits, such as the "lightning", Who are a bit like the brothers of the best known"backpacks”, The typical biscuits of corn flour with raisins.
The "Saetto" di Nobile are available both in the corn flour version with raisins and in the version with candied fruit that will delight the little ones because the fruit incorporated in the dough appears at times coloring the biscuits with a thousand colors. In short, a sweet and colorful Easter.
Tonolo pastry shop
Tonolo is synonymous with "cakes" in Venice. For years they have been the pastry chefs of the city where you go when you are invited by friends and you have to bring a cake or a cake.
In 2013 a journalist from the prestigious Financial Times wrote about them that "they became the appointment every morning during my vacation" and the pastry shop in Dorsoduro became, and still is, an international must.
Among the best-selling and most appreciated desserts are the "Venetian cakes"But also theirs almond cakes make the delight of those who receive them as well as the pastries.
And of course, the Venetian focaccia from Tonolo cannot be missing, soft and fragrant. They still make it with the original recipe of great-grandfather Giuseppe who won the gold medal for the best preparation of the Venetian dessert in Paris in 1909.
Now, everyone in Venice for the "Easter fugassa"?
