Panettone Lovers Unite!

[mellowyellowgirl]

I’ve officially lost my marbles! After eating two, 1kg panettone, I went out and hoarded these today!

Any other panettone lovers out there or do you regift these? They are so so so good!!!!!!!

How do you eat yours? Traditional? Chocolate chip? I’ve only ventured into traditional but will try the choc chip tomorrow. There was an amareno cherry one but I’m not sure how I feel about dried cherries in my panettone. The original is sooooooo yummy. But I should try new things! I’m torn!

 

[stracci2000]

I’ve officially lost my marbles! After eating two, 1kg panettone, I went out and hoarded these today!

Any other panettone lovers out there or do you regift these? They are so so so good!!!!!!!

How do you eat yours? Traditional? Chocolate chip? I’ve only ventured into traditional but will try the choc chip tomorrow. There was an amareno cherry one but I’m not sure how I feel about dried cherries in my panettone. The original is sooooooo yummy. But I should try new things! I’m torn!

I agree, panettone is delicious!
I like it lightly toasted with butter.

 

[Rhd3]

My dad loved panettone! He used it to make bread pudding or toasted it with butter and a dusting of powdered sugar. They freeze well if you have a surplus which he often did. Lol. Defrost on the countertop.

 

[missy]

Haha loved panettone and for decades one of my employers used to give it out as part of his Christmas gift. Most people I know don’t like it so it’s nice to see others enjoy it like I used to

 

[Crimson]

I love a good panettone, esp those with fruit and or chocolate. Last year I received an enormous one from a local jeweller. We ate it -lain and then with some custard sauce (is that a sin?)

 

[OreoRosies86]

I like making bread pudding out of the chocolate chip kind!

 

[mellowyellowgirl]

I love a good panettone, esp those with fruit and or chocolate. Last year I received an enormous one from a local jeweller. We ate it -lain and then with some custard sauce (is that a sin?)

Not a sin! It is genius!

Mine is a vehicle for butter



Please post photos folks! If you get your hands on any. Probably a few months from now

 

[pearlsngems]

I make panettone in my bread machine:

 

[Star gazer]

My favourite treat at Christmas!!! Last year a store nearby was seliing little delicious individual-sized ones. We bought a whole bunch and gifted them beside people's presents, and my husband took some to work to share!

 

[VRBeauty]

We go through several during the holidays, and I also like mine with butter. It’s a good thing they’re not readily available year-round around here.

 

[Mreader]

I love them. Previously, I could only get them in Europe, but they started selling them at places like TJ Maxx and marshals a few years ago ha ha.

 

[Daisys and Diamonds]

Not a sin! It is genius!

Mine is a vehicle for butter



Please post photos folks! If you get your hands on any. Probably a few months from now

ive never had it
but this pix has me wanting to try it
it looks a bit like a loaf served like this

 

[Daisys and Diamonds]

We go through several during the holidays, and I also like mine with butter. It’s a good thing they’re not readily available year-round around here.

some one said everything is better with butter !

 

[Dee*Jay]

At the risk of sounding dumb... is this like fruitcake... ? Maybe not since you're talking about chocolate chips... but the cherries and other fruit have me confused. Whatever it is, I'm game to try it though!

 

[Daisys and Diamonds]

At the risk of sounding dumb... is this like fruitcake... ? Maybe not since you're talking about chocolate chips... but the cherries and other fruit have me confused. Whatever it is, I'm game to try it though!

i had to google it
ive only ever seen imported ones in boxes in the supermarket at xmas and they are always to expensive too buy in case we didnt like it
but now i know you can butter it ... maybe this tear

 

[VRBeauty]

At the risk of sounding dumb... is this like fruitcake... ? Maybe not since you're talking about chocolate chips... but the cherries and other fruit have me confused. Whatever it is, I'm game to try it though!

Panettone is a light, slightly sweet, yeast-raised bread that is lightly laced with raisins, or candied fruit, or bits of chocolate, or all of the above. If you’re familiar with challah, the flavor and texture is somewhat like challah. It’s usually baked in a cylinder shape with a domed top, snd it’s usually available during the holidays. Have I mentioned that it’s an Italian treat?

We often have a slice with breakfast when it’s available. There’s a low-cost grocery chain in our area (Grocery outlet) that carries it and Home Goods and Cost Plus usually have it too. I’m sure there are better Pantone’s and better sources, but not near us.

 

[mellowyellowgirl]

At the risk of sounding dumb... is this like fruitcake... ? Maybe not since you're talking about chocolate chips... but the cherries and other fruit have me confused. Whatever it is, I'm game to try it though!

It’s much fluffier than fruitcake. Think brioche with sultanas and candied orange peel. Also less of a spice smell and more of a sourdough/yeasted bread fragrance.

We have sooo many flavours here.

Original- sultanas and orange peel

Dried amareno cherry

Chocolate Chip

Limoncello - the fluffy panettone dough with swirls of limoncello curd throughout the loaf

Pistachio

It’s so so so good!!!! You must give it a try!!!

 

[purplesilk]

There's Panettone and there's Pandoro, two Italian Xmas treats.
Panettone and Pandoro are not made all the year around, but only two months before Xmas.
[For Easter we-Italian people- eat Colomba which is really really good: try it if you can, it's really delicious.]
The best original recipe Panettone and Pandoro are made in the north of Italy, while South Italy produces the best not-original recipe Panettone and Pandoro which are the flavoured custard filled version of Panettone and Pandoro (Limoncello custard/pistacchio custard/ chocolate&cream/...).
Artisanal Panettone and Pandoro are expensive (more than 30€ per Kilogram if you buy them directly from the manufacturer, more than 40€ per Kilogram if you buy at shops).
Industrial scale Panettone and Pandoro are cheaper: they are sold at supermarkets and they cost less than 10€ per kilogram (right after Xmas they are sold at 3€ per kilogram).
* Renato Bosco is the Panettone's and Pandoro's king [Renato Bosco thinks that Panettone should be eaten all the year around: in his restaurant you can eat Panettone also in summer which is weird for Italian people).
* Filippi's Panettone are also very very good.

 

[dk168]

Not a sin! It is genius!

Mine is a vehicle for butter



Please post photos folks! If you get your hands on any. Probably a few months from now

I am not a fan of Panettone, however, I could be now that I have seen this pic for a slice to be covered in butter!

DK

 

[Dandi]

Panettone makes the best bread and butter pudding!! With butterscotch sauce and custard

 

[Mreader]

At the risk of sounding dumb... is this like fruitcake... ? Maybe not since you're talking about chocolate chips... but the cherries and other fruit have me confused. Whatever it is, I'm game to try it though!

Not like that weird heavy dense fruitcake - it’s like a French brioche bread and sometimes has fruit in it. Sometimes it’s just plain and sometimes w chocolate chips.

 

[pearlsngems]

Panettone is a light yeasted bread, nowhere near as dense or sweet as a fruitcake. It has lots of eggs, milk, and butter.
My mother made it in a tube pan. The recipe required making a sponge first and was time consuming due to its having to rise twice.
I used to make it that way, but it was easy to adapt the recipe for my bread machine, and I never looked back.

Use Sweet Bread setting and 1.5 lb. loaf setting.
Place ingredients in bread pan in this order:

3/4 cup milk (whole milk preferably)
3 large eggs
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup sugar
3 Tablespoons unsalted butter, melted or softened and cut in cubes
3 cups bread flour, spooned into the measuring cup and leveled off. If you only have all purpose flour, you can make your own bread flour by including 1 tablespoon of vital wheat gluten in every cup of all purpose flour. (Plus the additional vital wheat gluten listed below)
1 Tbs. vital wheat gluten (absolutely necessary for structure). This is also sold as "vital wheat gluten flour". Same thing.
2 tsp. instant yeast (not Rapid Rise yeast. If you have a bread machine, you already know.)

Set a timer to add the fruit mix after 10-15 minutes.
Then add: about 1.5 cups total of candied fruit of your choice and raisins. (If you don't like fruitcake mix, try other sweetened dried fruits, chopped into small pieces.)

When the bread machine beeps that it's done, you will want to remove the panettone promptly, as otherwise the crust thickens and turns brown and flavor is negatively affected. Let it cool before cutting.

This doesn't taste exactly like the boxed panettone. I really don't know how they produce that flavor. I prefer my own. My husband likes both.

 

[canuk-gal]

HI:

I like it but can't eat a lot of it. I prefer Babka. (my Mom's that used 12 egg yolks....)

cheers--Sharon

 

[purplesilk]

Covering Panettone with butter is a sacrilege in Italy!!!
It's also recommended not to eat cold Panettone because you'd taste the butter used as ingredient: Panettone tastes as its best if you put slices in the oven at 180°C for a couple of minutes.

 

[Dee*Jay]

Ah -- gotcha! Thank you for the explanations everyone. I was having flashbacks of my dead great grandmother's fruitcake and I couldn't imagine that's what was being discussed because people actually seemed to LIKE it.

 

[Calliecake]

Your comment made me laugh @Dee*Jay. My grandma loved that fruitcake you are talking about. She never had to worry about the rest of us wanting a slice.

 

[canuk-gal]

Your comment made me laugh @Dee*Jay. My grandma loved that fruitcake you are talking about. She never had to worry about the rest of us wanting a slice.

What?? LOL My Mother made the traditional cake (60s recipe) and there was never a bite left! I took her ancient recipe and used almond flour (sister has celiacs), organic fruit and nuts, and it was heavenly! I stopped making it a few years ago--I got lazy--and cost me 150$ bucks to mail it around the country. My adult nephews still ask my sisters if Aunty Sharon is making the cake this year!!! I guess either you love it or you hate it. My proper British dear friend loves my recipe and makes it.

OK thread hijack over!

 

[Dee*Jay]

Your comment made me laugh @Dee*Jay. My grandma loved that fruitcake you are talking about. She never had to worry about the rest of us wanting a slice.

Callie, I'm convinced there are only about six actual fruitcakes in the entire world and they just get passed from household to household, never eaten!

 

[Dee*Jay]

What?? LOL My Mother made the traditional cake (60s recipe) and there was never a bite left! I took her ancient recipe and used almond flour (sister has celiacs), organic fruit and nuts, and it was heavenly! I stopped making it a few years ago--I got lazy--and cost me 150$ bucks to mail it around the country. My adult nephews still ask my sisters if Aunty Sharon is making the cake this year!!! I guess either you love it or you hate it. My proper British dear friend loves my recipe and makes it.

OK thread hijack over!

I'm pretty sure we have one left somewhere Sharon. I'll send it to you this Christmas!


OK, my threadjack is over too -- Sorry!

 

[monarch64]

Ha. When I was in college I had a supervisor position at Casual Corner, owned by Luxottica at the time. Every Christmas they’d send us all a giant panettone. None of us ate it; it was dry as a bone and had the flavor of its cardboard packaging. Total shame.

Recently tried a new local restaurant for brunch, and my friend ordered the panettone French toast, which she found divine. She is well-traveled and we got into a conversation (server included) all about panettone after I told my Casual Corner story. They set me straight about what good panettone is and let me know I should reconsider my stance. LOL

ETA: my mother also made fruitcakes! I remember her buying the jelly-looking fruits in a plastic tub from the grocery store. I don’t know anything about how she made those fruitcakes, but I remember some type of alcohol was involved and that the entire thing looked and smelled pretty awful. But I was a very young child when she was making them, and she was half Norwegian and maybe, looking back, it was her take on traditional Norwegian Christmas cake. Who knows.