Fiasconaro Pear & Chocolate Colomba 1kg

The pear & chocolate Colomba is a great alternative to chocolate eggs this Easter. This traditional Italian cake is studded with juicy pieces of candied Williams pear. The finishing touch is an indulgent white chocolate topping with dark chocolate chips.  

Colomba di Pasqua, or ‘Easter Doves’, are traditional dove-shaped Italian Easter cakes. Colomba are traditionally made with yeast and eggs, like panettone, but are topped with sugar icing or chocolate. Colomba undergo a quadruple-leavening process to make the finished cake exceptionally light and airy.

Fiasconaro produce some of Italy’s finest confectionery and cakes. Their products use only the best Sicilian ingredients: Sicilian pistachios and dried fruit, flour from Sicily’s highest Madonie mountains and geographically protected Modica chocolate.

Ingredients: soft wheat flour, butter, sugar, fresh eggs, candied pear (9%) (pears, glucose-fructose syrup, sucrose, lemon juice concentrate), white chocolate covering (8%) (sugar, cocoa butter, whole milk powder, emulsifier: soy lecithin, natural vanilla extract),  chocolate drops (8%) (sugar, cocoa paste, cocoa butter, emulsifier: sunflowers lecithin, natural vanilla flavouring), fresh egg yolk, natural yeast (wheat flour, water, yeast), chocolate of couverture (contains soy), pear granulate (1%) (fruit (pear juice (16%), pear puree (14%) apple puree (9%)), fructose syrup, sugar, rice flour, cacao butter, gelling agent: pectin, acid: citric acid, natural flavouring, acidity regulator: potassium citrate), Sicilian honey, emulsifier: mono and diglycerides of fatty acids, ‘Marsala PDO’ wine, cocoa butter, skimmed milk powder, salt, natural vanilla flavouring, rice flour, wheat malt, glazing agent (shellac, gum arabic).

Allergy Advice: for allergens see ingredients listed in bold. May contain traces of nuts, mustard and lupin.

Storage: store in a cool dry place.