Description
Ricciarelli Biscuits. We make delicious, home-made almond soft biscuits.
We roll and dust the biscuits in icing sugar.
Our recipe consists of only the best ingredients.
What are Ricciarelli Biscuits?
Ricciarelli are chewy, dense Italian almond biscuits from Siena.
They are considered the Italian cousin to the French macaron.
We make the biscuits using ingredients such as ground almonds, almond extract, sugar and egg whites.
Our biscuits have a crackled effect. They look best when dusted with icing sugar.
Ricciarelli are especially popular during the Christmas season but you can also eat them all year round.
Who invented them?
Ricciarelli biscuits were first invented in the fourteenth century in Siena.
Christian knight Ricciardetto Della Gherardesca introduced the biscuits when he returned from the Crusades.
He offered the Ricciarelli to his guests in his castle near Siena.
They immediately became a hit and are now one of the culinary jewels of Sienese culture.
The term ‘ricciarelli’ was not used until the 1880s.
The biscuits were previously known as marzapanetti alla senese or morzelletti.
Ricciarelli is derived from the word ‘rìccio,’ which means hedgehog.
The original biscuits – when coated with an almond – resembled the look of a hedgehog.
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Our Ricciarelli biscuits are available in boxes of 200g.
If you would like this product on shorter notice than is available online, please call us and we may be able to accommodate you.
Please store our cakes in a refrigerator until they are ready to eat.
We recommend consuming our Italian cream pastries within 48 hours of purchase and our fresh cream pastries within 24 hours of purchase.
We accept no liability for products damaged after you have collected or received your order.
Please note that the colour of a product may differ slightly from its online appearance.
This could be due to lighting, computer or phone settings and the products we use.
