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Baci di dama

Also known as: Lady's kisses biscuits

Piemonte Italia presents baci di dama as a specialty of Tortona, now made across southern Piedmont and elsewhere.

Baci di dama — illustrative food image

About Baci di dama

Piemonte Italia presents baci di dama as a specialty of Tortona, now made across southern Piedmont and elsewhere. Its version combines almonds and hazelnuts in small, rounded shortbread biscuits joined by dark chocolate.

The toasted nuts flavour the biscuits alongside vanilla and sugar. Butter supplies richness, while the thin chocolate layer gives each pair a contrasting centre.

The biscuit dough is described as crisp and crumbly. Each piece has a rounded top and a flat side, allowing two halves to meet around the chocolate and form the characteristic stacked shape.

Allergens in this recipe

Contains: Milk, Wheat (gluten), Almond, Hazelnut.

Other allergen details are unconfirmed.

Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.

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Ingredients in Baci di dama

Piemonte Italia’s almond-and-hazelnut baci di dama.

Ingredient details & uncertainties

Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.

  • Butter: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Milk source-confirmed
  • Dark chocolate: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Full product formula unknown.
  • Type 0 wheat flour: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Wheat (gluten) source-confirmed. Explicit farina di frumento0; exact incorporation step omitted, Wheat positive.
  • Almonds: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Almond source-confirmed
  • Shelled hazelnuts: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Hazelnut source-confirmed
  • Vanilla pods: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Broader vanilla candidate for actual pods.
  • Sugar: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
  • Water bath: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Explicit chocolate bagnomaria70, qualitative heating medium; not edible dough water.

Origins & food traditions

Italy association in the attributed source; no exclusive invention claim.

Countries

  • Italy
  • ItalyCatalogue link pending review

Cuisines & regions

AI-generated illustration of one possible presentation. Recipes and ingredients vary; the image does not establish allergen content.

Sources & references
  1. BACI DI DAMA — Piemonte Italia