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Your Guardian Chef: Laura Giunta Tobin

Why Italians always have a cake on the table


Buon Mercoledì Reader,

There is a whole category of cake in Italy that has nothing to do with frosting, cream, or refrigeration.

It sits on the kitchen table all week — breakfast, merenda, whatever you need. Dense, fragrant, no occasion required.

And when you're going somewhere, you wrap a slice and bring it — to a friend's house, to the office on Monday, to a picnic on the grass.

Every Italian family has one on rotation.

Here are the ones I like keeping on my table:

Sweet Italian Polenta Cake with Ricotta
Healthy Italian Ricotta Cake Butterless
Easy Torta Caprese Italian Flourless Chocolate Cake
Italian Apple Cake Torta di Mele
Marble Bundt Cake Ciambella
Carrot Cake Loaf with Walnuts
Coconut Orange Loaf Cake

Buon appetito,

Laura
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