Authentic Pandoro Recipe Verona, Italy

Pandoro, or pan d’oro (lit. golden bread), is a classic Veronese sweet bread served in Italian households during the Christmas season. However, pandoro should not be mistaken with panettone, a similar sweet bread containing raisins and various candied citrus fruit. Pandoro is a beautifully elegant dessert made with wheat flour, mother yeast, sugar, category A fresh chicken eggs, butter, salt, and vanilla. Apart from its silky smooth texture and golden crust, what makes pandoro stand out is its eight-pointed star shape. When dusted with icing sugar, one could easily see the resemblance between pandoro and the Italian Alps’ snowy peaks. Although the ingredients necessary to make pandoro are basic, the process is relatively time-consuming and arduous. A traditionally made pandoro will have had three proofing stages, which means it takes more than thirty hours to make. First, a starter dough is made by repeatedly refreshing the mother yeast with flour and water,... Read more