A Polacca aversana cut open: custard and sour cherries inside, icing sugar on top
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Polacca aversana

The typical pastry of Aversa: a brioche filled with custard and sour cherries.

The Polacca aversana is the typical pastry from Aversa, near Naples: soft brioche dough filled with pastry cream and sour cherries, closed and dusted with icing sugar. Bars serve it at breakfast, whole or sliced.

Origin
Selected artisan bakeries
Typical ingredients
Brioche dough (wheat flour, butter, eggs, sugar, yeast, lemon zest), pastry cream (milk, egg yolks, sugar, starch or flour, lemon zest, vanilla), sour cherries in syrup, icing sugar.
Allergens
gluten, eggs, milk. Typical ingredients of the traditional recipe. The exact ingredients and allergens are on the product label: ask us for the technical data sheet.

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