Ciao! My family and I visited a bakery steps away from the Parthenon in Rome many years ago. They sold a pastry there which turned out to be one of the best things we’ve ever eaten the kind you remember a lifetime.

Over the last 10 years we’ve have been trying to find the name of the pastry or bakery on Google Maps but so far it’s eluded us! Unfortunately there aren’t any pictures of it from our trip and descriptions online don’t seem to match up right.

The pastry was triangle-shaped like a pizza slice. It was fairly big about the size of a dinner plate (about 9-10 inches long), but similar to an American-style calzone in that it was thick enough for filling inside. At the same time the filling wasn’t so thick as to make the pastry ‘dome’ shaped like this – the belly of the pastry was relatively flat as if they used a knife to spread 2-3 layers like you do with a sandwich.

The filling tasted like fruit jam – sweet balanced with tart. We tried a flavor like raspberry, another like blackberry, another like a sweet fragrant lemon. The fruits weren’t completely emulsified, so it was a chunky not 100% smooth texture.

The dough was firm enough to hold its shape but soft to the bite even after surviving days in the fridge. Not flaky whatsoever.

Any of you culinary geniuses got an idea about what this pastry could be called? We're hungry for it and willing to pay lol.

Grazie mille

by ruedebac1830

3 Comments

  1. Wonderful-Pilot-2423

    Could it possibly be a sfogliatella?

    ETA: looks like you already got your answer.

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