Baked Goods

Calzone is a crescent-shaped folded pizza, often filled with prosciutto or salami, mozzarella, ricotta and Parmesan. Casatiello, or casatello, is a savoury Neapolitan Easter bread stuffed with cheeses and salami and baked with eggs (still in their shells) pushed into the dough. Frisella is a dried bread common to the south, which is used rehydrated in salads, etc. On the sweet side, there are a number of Campanian specialities. Struffoli are deep-fried sweet dough balls, coated in syrup and spices, then piled into a pyramid or arranged in a ring. Sfogliatella is a puff pastry cake, sold in bars as a snack. It contains cooked semolina, ricotta, candied fruit and spices, or sometimes crema pasticcera. Babba al rum or babà is a sweet yeast dough studded with sultanas, baked then soaked in rum and syrup - much like its French ancestor. Torrone is nougat, made with egg white and almonds, originally from Cremona in Lombardy. In Naples, it is enclosed in a Madeira cake casing; in Benevento, the torrone is made from hazelnuts and honey.