Gubana (Italian Easter Bread)

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated March/April 1994

Italian-baking expert Carol Field demonstrates how to make this unusual dessert bread from Friuli.

SERVES Makes 2 loaves

TIME 2¼ hours, plus 4½ to 6½ hours rising and 2 hours cooling

Gubana (Italian Easter Bread)

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

Italian baking expert Carole Field showed us the best filling (a combination of nuts, candied fruit, cookie crumbs, chocolate, and liquor) and the best way to shape the dough (a combination of rolling and twisting) for this traditional Ital...

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