MODERN STORY OF THE EASTER DOVE

Colomba pasquale

The Easter Dove (colomba pasquale in Italian) is a typicall Easter cake, the counterpart of the well known Italian panettone.

It was Dino Villani, marketing director of the firm MOTTA (famous for the panettone) who invented in the '30 the Easter dove with the intent to use the same machines and the same dough of the panettone.

In year 1944 Angelo Vergani, the founder of the VERGANI firm, reinvented the recipe and since then the classic Easter dove made with flour, eggs, sugar, yeast, butter, candid orange peel and an almond icing, become a typicall Italian Easter cake!!!

Colomba di Pasqua Vergani

Manifersto colomba Motta