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Delizia al limone – lemon delight
Delizia al limone
Sponge cake filled and coated with lemon cream.
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Created on the Sorrento peninsula in the late 1970s, in Carmine Marzuillo's pastry shop, with lemons from the coast.
The story of Delizia al limone – lemon delight
Delizia al limone is a little dome of sponge cake filled with lemon cream, soaked in a limoncello syrup and covered with a pale lemon cream.
It is a recent dessert, and it has an author: the Sorrento pastry chef Carmine Marzuillo, who created it in the 1970s by pairing sponge cake with a cream made from the Ovale di Sorrento lemon. His workshop was on Viale Nizza, in Sorrento. Marzuillo died in 2020, aged 89.
The Ovale di Sorrento is an ecotype of the Femminello lemon, now protected by the Limone di Sorrento PGI and grown between Vico Equense, Meta, Piano di Sorrento, Sant’Agnello, Sorrento, Massa Lubrense, Capri and Anacapri.
Who invented delizia al limone?
The Sorrento pastry chef Carmine Marzuillo, in the 1970s. He died in 2020, aged 89.
What is inside a delizia al limone?
Sponge cake, lemon cream, a limoncello syrup and a coating of lemon cream.