Panettone

[barry1010]

I tried this once and didn't like it.  I was expecting cake and it was more like bread. 

Is it supposed to be like that or have  I been missing out? 

[-SharonA-]

Dry. Too dry for me. I hear you can get chocolate ones.

[brainiac]

I like it as it's not too sweet -  good with coffee

[barry1010]

Are you supposed to put some sort of spread on it? 

[Buenchico]

It is generally rather more like bread than cake.  However there are loads of different types, with just a few mentioned here:
https://www.italiaregina.it/how-many-panettone-types-exist/

I've had some reasonably good panettone on occasions (including in Costa) but I've more often been disappointed in it.  A few years back, I bought some very small gin-soaked panettone for a couple of friends, as well as one for myself. At £18 each (i.e. £54 in total) from a reputable retailer (Lakeland), I thought that they'd be lovely but they were no better than the regular stuff that you can buy for £3 each in Asda :(

What I really love at this time of the year though is good quality, booze-soaked Stollen.  I can't get enough of the stuff!
 

[barry1010]

I have never had stollen.  What is it? 

[barry1010]

I like malt loaf 😁

[237SJ]

I tried it  two years ago when I was in the US for Thanksgiving.  It wasn't as bad as I t;ought but I don't like cake anyway.  It's nothing to write home about.

[tomus42]

Pane is bread in Italian. It's a sweet bread.

Stollen is more like a cake. It's marzipan based with fruit. Stodgier and nicer imo.

[andres]

I love it with butter and also toasted with butter.  

[Buenchico]

Stollen is gorgeous!

It's a moist (and very filling) product, somewhere between cake and bread.  It's always packed with fruit and usually contains marzipan and almonds, with plenty of booze in it often enhancing the flavour too!

It's traditionally made into bread-like loaves for slicing but, just as when buying a loaf of bread, the slices at the ends can be a bit drier than the rest of it.  So many supermarkets now sell it in slices or 'bites', so that it has the same moistness all the way through. Most supermarkets seem to run out of those though well before Christmas!  (I couldn't see any in Morrisons the other day; they'd only got the loaves).

If you can find them in stock in Asda, these (at £3 per pack) are very tasty:
https://i.postimg.cc/YSSZ8Pzf/Stollen.jpg

[237SJ]

When I used to take an aircraft into Germany, the caterers used to give us stollen to take home.  The proper stuff.  I used to take it home to my parents for Christmas and they loved it. It wasn't really my thing though.

[anneasquith]

Quick blast in microwave, have with ice cream or custard . 

[pastafreak]

I love panettone. It's a sweet yeast bread...studded with candied peel, and I've never found it to be dry. It makes a great bread and butter pudding. To me, it's similar to hot cross buns. I need to ask my daughter and her (Italian) partner to get me one at Christmas...neither of them like it.