D'Addezio Apolline Sfogliatelle – Chocolate Hazelnut

A chocolate-hazelnut heart under a crisp puff pastry

For a festive snack or a coffee among friends, you need a treat that makes eyes light up. These Apolline sfogliatelle hide under their golden pastry a chocolate and hazelnut cream, melting and round.

What you will taste

• Texture: a pastry that crumbles into thin layers, then a melting heart.
• Aromas: toasted hazelnut, cocoa and a buttery note.
• Taste: a milky, chocolatey sweetness, with a praline aftertaste.

How to use it

• With a tight espresso or a cappuccino, at breakfast or snack time.
• At the end of a festive meal, with a glass of Vin Santo or Passito di Pantelleria.
• At the center of a Christmas platter, with other sweets to share.

Where it comes from

The sfogliatella is a flaky pastry of Neapolitan tradition. The Apolline are its version in small pieces filled with cream, signed by D'Addezio, a pastry house based in Turin, in Piedmont; this one combines chocolate and hazelnut.