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pigna

Easter (or Christmas) cake

A light cake (lots of eggs and yeast), often with a liqueur and candied fruit mixed in; sugar frosting and coloured sprinkles. Traditional mostly in the south.

Basilicata

Calabria

Campania

Desserts and pastries

Puglia

Sicily

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