I just had to. I’ve been here in Italy for almost 2 months and my apartment here in Milano is just 3 doors away from the best pastry shop in the city, Pasticceria Spezia Milano. I hadn’t been in yet for my favorite: Babá, a sponge cake filled with sweetened ricotta cheese and chocolate bits. The whole thing is so saturated with sweetened rum that it gushes and runs down my hand when I take a bite.
After a bike ride and a shower, I finally went over to get a little something sweet. MAYBE the bike ride offset the Babá, but I don’t care either way!
And they wrap them so beautifully with an arch of gold to lift the custom paper off the delicate pastries. The whole thing is tied with a red ribbon and a bow.
I wonder if I would like those. They SO aren’t my usual style of dessert that I would prefer. Reminds me of an eclair or cream puff (which are Bruce’s fave, but not mine). I bet the bakery makes them delicious though.
These aren’t light like a cream puff. And it’s not a frothy, soft, whipped cream or vanilla pudding type of filling. It’s lightly sweetened ricotta cheese. And the sponge cake is so saturated with sweetened rum that the whole thing is heavy but delicate (and leaves you with rum-breath.)