Torta di Grano Saraceno

This moist cake is a traditional dessert in the Alto Adige, or Sudtirol, Italy’s German-speaking region; the name in German is Buchweizentorte. Bolzano, the capital of the Alto Adige, is reminiscent of a medieval Austrian town, with a wonderful open-air fruit market near the center of the oldest part of the town.

Preiselbeeren, or mirtilli rossi (literally, red blueberries), which resemble Scandinavian lingonberries, are used to make the preserves that fill the