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The traditional ‘dove-shaped’ Colomba di Pasqua or Colomba pasquale has been a firm fixture on the Easter calendar in Italy for almost a century.<\/p>\n
Its origins date back to the 1930s to Motta, a company in Milan already famous for its Panettone and Pandoro, two classic sweet breads associated with the Christmas season in Italy.<\/p>\n
The Colomba was dreamed up as a way of using the same baking equipment and many of the same ingredients to cash in on the Easter market. The plan worked.<\/p>\n
Milanese baker and businessman Angelo Motta commercialised the Colomba which was marketed successfully by his advertising director Dino Villani.<\/p>\n
In the 1940s the recipe was taken up by Angelo Vergani who founded Milan’s Vergani company which still produces colombe today.<\/p>\n
The dough for the Colomba is produced in a similar\u00a0way to Panettone, with flour, eggs, sugar, natural yeast and butter.<\/p>\n
After being fashioned into a ‘colomba<\/em>‘ or dove shape, the dough is topped with icing and almonds before being baked.<\/p>\n Whereas the Panettone contains raisins and mixed candied fruit, Colomba contains only candied orange peel and no raisins, with a sugary almond topping.<\/p>\n There are also differences in form, with the Panettone being dome-shaped and the Colomba in the shape (more or less) of a dove.<\/p>\n These days the Colomba comes in a variety of versions with flavours including chocolate, cherry, pear and pistacchio.\u00a0<\/p>\n The best bakeries and pastry shops in Rome to buy the typical Easter cake include\u00a0favourites such as Roscioli, Panificio Bonci, Casa Manfredi, Panificio Nazzareno, Pasticceria Gru\u00e9 and Le Levain.<\/p>\n In 2026, Easter Sunday falls on 5 April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Colomba pasquale is\u00a0a popular Easter tradition in Italy. The traditional ‘dove-shaped’ Colomba di Pasqua or Colomba pasquale has been a firm fixture on the Easter calendar in Italy for almost a century. Its origins date back to the 1930s to Motta, a company in Milan already famous for its Panettone and Pandoro, two classic sweet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[29633,1757,29632,2800,6891],"class_list":["post-45482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-eventi","tag-cake","tag-colomba","tag-easter","tag-italys","tag-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Where are the best places in Rome to buy a Colomba?<\/strong><\/h3>\n