looking for Italian pastry - "sospiri"
Anyone know where I can get these pastries in NY? I used to get them years ago in the outer boroughs and recently found them in Italy but they seem to have disappeared from pastry shops here.
It's 2 layers of sponge cake with cream inside (maybe some alcohol, too) and the top layer is totally covered with white icing, topped with cherry.
It looks like this:
http://dolcienonsolo.myblog.it/media/...
tks
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lawyerlady
Mar 27, 2011 07:23 PM
oh i just got one of these at villabate in brooklyn. and i also saw them years ago at giorgio's in hoboken...he called them cassatina, i guess, little cassata. they were both good!
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Whatever else this is, it's not a cassata or the smaller cassatina, both of which are filled with sweetened ricotta and iced with marzipan. These are filled with pastry cream, with a sugar glaze. Rocco's on Bleecker St has a wide range of sweets, and Villabate on 70th St and 18th Avenue in Brooklyn, Fortunato Bros in Williamsburg, are likely sources. It's also likely they may be called something else, but the pastry itself is fairly common throughout the Italian south.
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Don cheech, that's the spittin' image of a Sicilian cassata. One of my favorites. Veniero's carries them. But the best I've ever had (worth the train ride) are from Georgio's on Washington St. @ 15th ? Street. Old school bakery. Also has perfect cannoli filled to order.
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Veniero's
342 E 11th St, New York, NY 10003›3 Replies-
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re: yebo
Yeah. Veniero's is 11th St. just west of 1st. ave. I also thing good Cassata can be found probably at Rocco's (Bleeker St. in Manhattan), and I'd bet they're available throughout the outer boroughs.
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Rocco's Pastry Shop
243 Bleecker St, New York, NY 10014Veniero's
342 E 11th St, New York, NY 10003
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