Baked Castagnole di Carnevale

And how a simple Italian Mardigras staple represents life and death.

This post contains some history behind these Carnevale sweets. If you want to skip straight to the recipe, scroll to the bottom.

Carnevale - one of Italy’s biggest, month-long holidays is, before anything, an anticipation of death.

When I was twelve, I joined the church’s choir. We went on to become rather numerous and we would animate several masses thr…