Skye McAlpine’s Putizza Recipe – Design*Sponge

It’s the most wonderful time of the year! I was already playing my Christmas music before Thanksgiving, when I had a memory of eating a gubana, a traditional sweet bread eaten during the festivities in the Friuli region of Italy, that I tasted for the first time around Christmas here with a family in Padova. It was pure coincidence that Skye McAlpine, a freelance writer and the author of the blog From My Dining Table, suggested we enjoy a recipe for a putizza, a sweet bread with a filling of chocolate, raisins, walnuts, and Skye’s own twist – tarragon butter. Skye lives in London, but she grew up in Venice, where her family home remains. Though the putizza is not strictly a Christmas sweet, it is a Christmas morning tradition in Skye’s family. It is a beautiful sweet bread, and if you have a baking tradition in your family around the holidays, it would be a lovely addition to a party or holiday meal. Skye encourages you to use her recipe only as a guide, adapting the filling to your own tastes and whims. –Kristina