The stocking of the Befana 2022 does not disappoint due to the variety of food proposals with an ancient flavor and local delicacies: the delicacies of the festival range from traditional and timeless sweet charcoal to products.
to name a few, such as pralines and dragées with variegated flavors of almonds and hazelnuts covered with milk or dark chocolate up to small nougats.
This year, however, the products that are the result of ancient recipes and the territory of the boot will predominate in the sock, as indicated by a survey conducted among the members of Cna Agroalimentare - National Confederation of crafts and small and medium-sized enterprises. Among the products of the feast of January 6 - points out Cna - the sweet camels of puff pastry from Varese, reminiscent of the horses of the Magi, the fugassa d'la Befana from the province of Cuneo, sweet with a soft, rounded dough, to which once inside two beans of different colors were hidden, up to the befanini of Lucca and Viareggio and the purcidduzzi of Salento, to name a few delicacies. However, there is no shortage of creations made foroccasion like the Roman one of the Grué pastry shop that offers cocoa muffins with a soft chocolate heart, decorated with vanilla butter cream and personalized with plastic chocolate subjects that simulate the legs of the Befana upside down, the hat and the broom or with candy canes. Grué also adds to the proposal a sock-shaped cake with a vanilla sponge cake and a non-alcoholic dip, layers accompanied by a vanilla chantilly with chocolate chips. There is also an international proposal that links the cities of Milan and Rome: the Galette des Rois (Cake of the Magi), proposed in the Lombard capital by Égalité and in Rome by Le Carré Français and by Madeleine. The dessert is a low pie made from golden puff pastry with a filling of frangipane cream. The most "ingredient"curious "is the fève (broad bean), a small surprise hidden in its dough.
The holiday also features initiatives promoted by Coldiretti with the Km0 stocking for babies vaccinated in the Covid 19 Vaccinal Hub - Mandela Forum in Florence and the suspended stocking for children admitted to the Giovanni XXIII pediatric hospital in Bari.