What do Italians typically eat at an italian wedding for dessert?

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martox45

Correct spelling is "cappuccino" but I wonder how is possible in an Italian restaurant they serve it as the dessert....!!
In Italy we just take it for breakfast or as a break-coffee in the middle of the day....!!
This said, I guess you live in Las Vegas (if I'm not wrong by reading yr previous questions) and I feel you can find there a bakery that's able to prepare an Italian wedding cake.
The Italian tradition is for the wedding cakes at 3-5 plans (floors?), generally it's a kind of millefoglie, filled with cream and this must be easy to be prepared by any bakery.
However day by day this has been replaced, mainly in the spring-summer time, by 'lighter' cakes based on fruits like
strawberries, peaches,kiwi, orange,etc.
The most popular wedding cakes (you can have them either on a multiplan or in flat cakes) are :

MILLE FOGLIE
Puff pastry with Chantilly cream.

TORTA MIMOSA
Sponge cake filled with Bavarian cream and vanilla.
It has a tipical yellow color.

CROSTATA DI FRUTTA
Fruit tart with vanilla cream.
It can be made with just one fruit (generally strawberries) or mixed fruits.

ST. HONORE'
Puff pastry, sponge cake, cream puffs and chantilly cream.

DIPLOMATICA:
Puff pastry base, sponge cake, vanilla cream or chantilly cream.

TORTA CHANTILLY:
Sponge cake, Chantilly cream, white chocolate shavings on top. (mainly in winter).

I see other answerers suggesting 'gelato'.
This is also served in the Italian wedding meals but as a rule is additional to the wedding cake. Under no circumstances it can replace it ...!!

For any guess feel free emailing me.
I'm not so used to describe cakes in English and I might have made some mistake that I could clear you up by email.

Best wishes for yr wedding day.

ontheroadagainwithoutyou

Tiramisu, but be sure to get a good one because they are made differently in this country. Find authentic Tiramisu!

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Tiramisu and gelato are great- But in Italy, they serve cake, just like us, with gelato (ice cream) my family lives there- I have been to 3 weddings there..

Claudia

In Italy we NEVER have Cappuccino for dessert like they thinks in all the world; we just have it for breakfast! The typical wedding dessert is usually a cake, we don't have a particular one it depends for which cake the newlyweds prefer. Usually it's a cake with different flats covered with whipped cream but is very popolar also a fruit cake or a "millesfoglie"

suugarnspice36

tiramisu or spumoni

sunshine

gelato.

rondone

ZUPPA INGLESE or MERINGA!

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