Discover the best Sicilian Sweets and recipes to taste all the favors of the Mount Etna.

• Pistacchio patries, nuts  and almonds: These are simple sweets, whose recipe handed down from housewife to housewife without any  particular elaborations. Those best known  are the pastries with a round shape made with a paste made up of pistacchio, nuts, and almonds.

• Mustazzuoli: The Mustazzuolo is a kind  of fagottino with a thin paste covering and an absolutely delicious filling made up of honey, dried fruit , cooked wine and spices, like cloves and cinnamon.

• The Torrone: The torrone is diffused in all the Sicilian island, and is a typical sweet of christmas festivities. The torrone can be prepared with various ingredients, with almonds, nuts or pistacchios. The best famous are the torroni of Linguaglossa made with nuts.

• The Cannoli: The Cannoli, manufactured  with a special friable paste,  are filled with a cream mixed with cottage cheese decorated with fused chocolate drops or candied fruit cut into pieces or pistaccchio finely minced. Exist other kind, with cream of chocolate or with yellow cream.                                                                                    

• The Granita: The granita has an ancient tradition. The noble families used to keep in summer the snow of the Etna in the so-called “houses  neviere”, in order to use it in the preparation of sorbets and ice creams. Today the granite, that  find numerous imitations in other regions of Italy but with insufficient result, is rich of various tastes:  lemon,  almonds, black mulberries, coffee and many other . The difference between the common  ice creams  with the granita  is that this last one is made up of water and therefore much thirst-quenching.   

• Olivette of Saint Agate: They are the typical sweets of the festivity of the Saint Patron of the city of Catania, Saint agate. They have shape of olives and are prepared with a sweet paste of almonds, they are inspired by a legend. It tells that in the place where the Saint bent down to tie a shoe, while  Quinziano came in order to  prosecute her, born a olive tree. From here “olivette of Sant'Agata”.