Best desserts in Geneva - 4th Quarter 2016

This post normally celebrates my favourite desserts from a cafe/bakery/pastry shop in Geneva. I have only documented delicacies here that I have tried personally (and many times).

For this quarter, the choice of cakes is small but equally fabulous. The cakes in Siciliani are to eat and cry for more. As its name indicates, Siciliani is an Italian pastry shop. Since its opened more than a year ago, this cake shop met with great success and is full of people day and night. They also have a restaurant area in case you want to dine.

Here are a few Italian cakes from the vast selection they offer.

Are you ready for the show???

Siciliani

Rue Caroline 8

1227 Les Acacias - Geneva

Tram 15 stop Acacias

Tél.: +4122 342 3854

Cannolo is a pastry of the Sicily region. Cannoli consist of tube-shaped shells of fried pastry dough, filled with a sweet, creamy filling usually containing ricotta. Other variants are flavoured with vanilla orange flower water. Chopped pistachios are used to decorate the cream at the open ends of the pastries.

Cassata Siciliana is a traditional cake from Sicily. Cassata consists of a round sponge cake moistened with liqueur and layered with ricotta cheese, candied peel, and a chocolate or vanilla filling. It is covered with a shell of marzipan and green pastel coloured icing. Then it is topped with candied fruit depicting cherries.

Rum Baba is a small yeast cake soaked in strong alcohol, usually rum, and sometimes filled with whipped cream or pastry cream. It is most typically made in individual servings (in a small tapered cylinder shape). The batter for baba is even richer than brioche batter, and includes eggs, milk and butter.

Bignè alla crema is a delicious choux pastry filled with Italian vanilla cream or a simple whipped cream, with a fresh raspberry on top.

Italian biscuits

 

These are my genuine personal opinions and favourites, otherwise I would not have written about these cakes. As always with all my posts, this is not sponsored.