Luxury Colomba Cake with Giusti Modena Balsamic IGP
Description
Weight: 1kg
This Giusti Colomba Cake combines the sweet-and-sour taste of Balsamic Vinegar of Modena with the traditions of this Italian Easter dessert. It is a soft and sweet leavened cake with pleasant Balsamic scents which are perfectly balanced.
Giusti's 3 Gold Medals Balsamic Vinegar is added to the dough, used to soak the raisins and added in the form of cream filling. The Giusti Colomba is finally covered with a delicious dark chocolate coating.
Ingredients
Wheat flour, sultanas 16%, Balsamic Vinegar of Modena filling cream 14% (sugar syrup, glucose syrup, Balsamic Vinegar of Modena 23% (cooked grape must, wine vinegar), modified corn starch, thickener: sodium alginate), butter (milk), fresh eggs, sugar, dark chocolate 6,5% (sugar, cocoa mass, cocoa butter, emulsifier: sunflower lecithin, natural vanilla flavour), fresh egg yolk, natural yeast (wheat flour, water), milk, Balsamic Vinegar of Modena 1,6% (cooked grape must, wine vinegar), emulsifiers: mono and diglycerides of fatty acids, glucose syrup, cooked grape must, flavourings, salt. Contain sulphites. May contain traces of nuts and soy
Our Producer
Gran Deposito Balsamic Vinegar by Giuseppe Giusti
Our producer is Giuseppe Giusti in Modena. Seventeen generations of his family have been producing high quality balsamic vinegar since 1605 and have won numerous prizes (including 14 Gold Medals) over the centuries. They were the authors of the first documented recipe for the production of Balsamic Vinegar and are the custodians of the most extraordinary existing cask reserve, composed of invaluable century old barrels.
Giuseppe Giusti and his family select good quality Trebbiano and Lambrusco grapes and slowly reduce the grape juice in copper kettles until it is thick, dark and sweet. No caramel is added to sweeten and colour it - this is the industrial way to mimic age. Giusti do not reduce by speedy pressurisation either, as do many industrial producers of balsamic.
Giusti add only good quality wine vinegar to the cooked grape must, and then age it in traditional barrels of various woods - juniper, cherry, oak, ash, and mulberry. Each wood infuses the balsamic with its own unique flavour and aroma. The family have over 1000 barrels in use - 600 of which are over 200 years old. Many industrial producers have only a few barrels and large, stainless steel silos.