Spending the morning rush at a café for a quick coffee and pastry is not as common as it used to be. But luckily, there's still Italian breakfast in bed!
This week, Leonelli Focacceria e Pasticceria, an Italian bakery located in the Evelyn Hotel of Manhattan, launched Pastry Chef Salvatore Martone's latest treat: frozen sfogliatelle ready to bake at home.
The James Beard Award winner and Pastry Chef for Joël Robuchon is a master of Italian dessert and breakfast pastries, especially sfogliatelle. Chef Martone prepares the layered pastry stuffed with warm ricotta and candied orange in the style of his native city, Naples, Italy.
“With all the restrictions on international flights we want to create a sfogliatella so authentic that with one bite you feel like you are in Italy,” he said.
Chef Martone loves sfogliatelle so much he recently made a quick video on how to make it, “A Trip from Napoli to New York in one bite.” Sfogliatelle is one of many pastries served at Leonelli, whose menu is inspired by the traditions of both Italy and New York City's Italian-American pastry shops.
Leonelli Focacceria e Pasticceria in Manhattan now offers boxes of frozen sfogliatelle that can be baked at home.
Liz Benno, the Director of Operations, said it was important to make sfogliatelle available to the home cook since pastry can be time consuming and challenging to make.
“Our 6-pack of frozen sfogliatelle comes with baking instructions, so it is seamless for the home cook,” she said. “We also realize that eating a warm sfogliatelle is quite rare.”
Enjoy this Italian breakfast staple at home and place your order here.