D'Addezio Apolline Sfogliatelle – Lemon Cream

A crisp pastry and a lemon cream for coffee

With the coffee at the end of a meal, you need a treat that doesn't weigh you down. These Apolline sfogliatelle set a crisp, buttery pastry against a lively lemon cream: each bite ends on a fresh note.

What you will taste

• Texture: a pastry that crackles under the fingers, then a silky cream.
• Aromas: butter, golden dough and citrus zest.
• Taste: the roundness of the pastry, lifted by the acidity of the lemon.

How to use it

• With a tight espresso, which balances the tang.
• At the end of a festive meal, with a small glass of well-chilled limoncello.
• On a Christmas platter, with mostaccioli and other Italian sweets.

Where it comes from

The sfogliatella is a flaky pastry of Neapolitan tradition. The Apolline are a version in small pieces filled with cream, in lemon, pistachio or hazelnut, signed by D'Addezio, a pastry house based in Turin, in Piedmont.