Nonna Antoinette Capodicci’s Soft Easter Bread

Pane di Pasqua

banner
Preparation info
  • Yield:

    one

    • Difficulty

      Easy

    • Ready in

      3 hr 30

Appears in
Cooking with Nonna: A Year of Italian Holidays

By Rossella Rago

Published 2018

  • About

Every year, Nonna Antoinette’s nipotini (grandchildren) look forward to her soft Easter bread, which bakes up fluffy with a wonderfully tender crumb every time. And I’m not sure what it is, but even though I’m all grown up, there’s just something about seeing those pastel-colored Easter eggs in the bread that fills me with wonder. You can make this recipe in a stand mixer, but Nonna Antoinette urges that mixing it by hand on a board the old-fashioned