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CLEVELAND, Ohio – When I was a 25-year-old marrying into an Italian family, my wedding cake was, of course, cassata. It was a glorious multi-layer, multi-tiered confection of sponge cake, custard and ...

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The greatest cake in the world might be cassata. Shelled in marzipan, decked with candied fruit, and filled with cannoli cream, cassata is the old, festival spirit of the Italian South in pastry form.