Panettone

Italian Christmas Cake

Preparation info
  • Makes

    1

    loaf
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Alastair Little's Italian Kitchen

By Alastair Little

Published 1996

  • About

This was my assistant Steve’s response to the unavailability of this speciality in summer. He laboriously translated it from an American recipe without the benefit of a set of measures.

Ingredients

  • 12.5 g fresh yeast (6 g dried)
  • 80 ml water<

Method

Dissolve the yeast in the 2 tbsp warm water with the ½ tsp sugar. Put the egg yolks, the remaining water and the yeast mixture into the bowl of a mixer and combine. Add the remaining sugar, the butter, sa