Chestnut Panettone

Panettone alle Castagne

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Preparation info
  • 1

    tall 9 inch cake
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
A Baker's Tour: Nick Malgieri's Favorite Baking Recipes from Around the World

By Nick Malgieri

Published 2005

  • About

The classic version of panettone, the traditional Italian Christmas cake, is flavored with raisins and candied orange peel, but today panettone is made in a wide variety of flavors. This one derives from a suggestion from my dear friend Nancy Nicholas, who tasted a chestnut panettone and then described it to me. I had never before thought to add candied chestnuts to panettone. Little did I know, however, when I started working on this recipe that my friend