Italian pastry

Italian pastry is another typical Italian product. When you enter in an Italian bar in the morning, specially between 8.00 and 9.30am, you may find yourself sorrounded by a wonderful aroma.

The Italian breakfast is often coffee/cappuccino + sweet pastry. Most bars have the pastries exposed in a self service china cabinet, where you enter, ask for your coffee or cappuccino and take he pastry by yourself. The most common is cornetto, the Italian version of french croissant, that has three main versions: empty, with cream or with fruit jam.

Other than cornetto, you can find different shapes of pastries with chocolate chips, with appple and other variations.

Italian habits

As I told you somewhere else in this site, Italians have many uses, and it's difficult to find pastries in a bar during the afternoon, even if they would be wonderful also for a snack. But it is considered as breakfast, and so the bars buy or cook the quantity that serves for the morning. So, remember, you'll find always fresh pastries, but if you arrive around 11.30am you may find them finished!

I personally love to have breakfast. Quite all kinds of breakfast, and so I can say that Italian one, made of cappuccino and a cornetto is really good. The "not so sweet" taste of the pastry matches perfectly with the cappuccino and gives you that satisfaction feeling.

Each breakfast matches with the local food culture. Italian one is not so rich as american or english ones, as Italians are supposed to have lunch at 1.00pm.

But, after breakfast, there are many other occasions to eat Italian pastry in general, I mean not cornetto and friends, but real sweets or desserts.

There are some traditional Italian pastries that are strictly seasonal, as panettone and others.