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Serpentone

Snake-Shaped Cake

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  • Serves

    6 to 8

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
The Italian Regional Cookbook

By Valentina Harris

Published 2017

  • About

Apples and dried fruit, nuts and sugar are the main ingredients for this classic Umbrian cake. The pastry is quite unusual: made with olive oil, flour, sugar and water, it has quite a different texture to butter pastry. The decoration of the cake is where the cook’s imagination takes flight - all kinds of expressions on the ‘snake’s’ face can be created using a few carefully placed ingredients. Some local cooks also add small coloured sweets to the snake, to represent scales. The cake is qu

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