Soft Sassello Macaroons

These soft macaroons are a mouth-watering speciality created in the middle of the 19th century by a small bakery in Sassello, a small town on the border between Liguria and Piedmont. The macaroon is distinguished for its unique consistency, which is the result of a combination of few carefully selected ingredients: sugar, egg-white, almonds and apricot kernels. Baking with traditional methods is however of critical importance. The result is a macaroon with the typical bitter-sweet flavour of almonds and apricot kernels, having an enduringly soft consistency. These refined biscuits are still today hand-wrapped one at a time.