cassata
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of cassata
from Italian
Example Sentences
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During sweltering Indian summers, people would dash to the lit-up cases of Kwality at their local dime store for a block of nutty butterscotch ice cream, or the triple-layered ice cream bar called cassata.
From New York Times ● Sep. 1, 2017
It is a tradition as varied as Italy itself, encompassing the pillowy focaccia of Liguria, the heavy, honeyed panforte of Siena and the sweet cassata of Sicily.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 14, 2017
The lower layers of the cassata do not buckle under the weight of those heaped above them.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 19, 2016
The baking of this elaborately decorated cassata is so distracting a labor that in 1575 the Roman Catholic Church forbade nuns to make it during Holy Week.
From Time Magazine Archive
Desserts include a chocolate and amaretti pie from Parma and one lavish sweet, Sicilian cassata: lemon cake lopped with a heady mixture of rum, chocolate and ricotta.
From Time Magazine Archive
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