Cleveland Cassata Cake appears as a signature dish in 1 United States cities. See each city's local variant and where to eat it.
Cleveland-style cassata cake · Cleveland
A four-layer yellow sponge cake soaked in light syrup and stacked with whipped cream, custard and fresh strawberries, finished with strawberry glaze.
Cleveland's cassata diverges from the Sicilian original (ricotta, candied fruit, marzipan). Italian-American bakers in Little Italy adapted it to local strawberries and dairy cream from the early 1900s, with Presti's (1903) and Corbo's (1958) defining the modern Cleveland-Italian wedding-and-Christmas cake.
Where to eat in Cleveland:
- Presti's Bakery
- Corbo's Bakery
- Michael Angelo's Bakery