cassata
/kəˈsɑːtə
/noun [mass noun]
Neapolitan ice cream containing candied or dried fruit and nuts.To finish, my wife had a delicious chocolate and vanilla ice cream bombe at £3 and I chose cassata at £3.25-very good, but perhaps too much ice cream with not enough candied fruit that makes cassata so different....
- Also, the traditional cassata and other large cakes are more common in Sicily compared to the plated desserts of New York.
- Met up with Cousin, had amazing gelato (white chocolate and cassata, so, so, so good.
Origin
1920s: Italian.