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Setteveli is a seven-layer chocolate cake with bitter chocolate mousse, gianduja, hazelnut praline, sponge, ganache and a thin chocolate glaze on top, the modern Palermitan signature.
Setteveli is the Palermitan seven-layer chocolate cake associated with Pasticceria Cappello, where AMPI master pastry chef Salvatore Cappello refined the Sicilian version. (The contemporary competition Setteveli that won the Coupe du Monde de la Patisserie in Lyon in 1997 was the work of a separate Italian team; Cappello's Palermo cake is the city's local standard.) The cake has become the modern signature Palermitan pastry, sold across the city alongside the historic convent and Arab-origin sweets.
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Pasticceria Cappello on Via Colonna Rotta is home to the Sicilian Setteveli, Palermo's defining seven-veil chocolate cake refined by Salvatore Cappello AMPI.
TipSetteveli single slice with espresso. Closed Monday. Second branch on Via Nicolo Garzilli 19.
Antico Caffe Spinnato on Via Principe di Belmonte in Palermo since 1860 is the city's senior cafe-pasticceria, the pedestrian-street terrace seat for morning.
TipThe pedestrian terrace fills first. Order espresso al banco for one euro; sit-down doubles it.
Pasticceria Costa on Via D'Annunzio in Palermo's Liberta is a senior Setteveli pasticceria-cafe, with espresso bar and monoporzione case for sit-down.
TipSetteveli monoporzione with espresso. The morning monoporzione case has seasonal flavours.
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