Soft Blueberry Amaretti

Soft Blueberry Amaretti, soft almond cookies from Virginia in Liguria

With their Soft Blueberry Amaretti, Amaretti Virginia brings blueberries into their soft almond cookies from Sassello. The dough, made from apricot kernels and almonds, contains a fruit preparation consisting of 42% blueberry pulp – baked without flour and packaged in a round decorative tin containing 140 g.

Soft Blueberry Amaretti are the soft almond cookies with blueberries by Amaretti Virginia from Sassello in Liguria. The bakery kneads a blueberry preparation containing 42% fruit pulp into their dough made of 46% apricot kernels and fine almonds, giving the tart almond pastry a juicy berry note. Each piece remains soft and slightly sticky on the inside, while the delicate crust cracks finely during baking.

A dark berry note in a soft center

Soft Blueberry Amaretti taste of marzipan and ripe blueberries; a fine, natural fruit acidity keeps the sweetness fresh.

Whether you call them blueberries or bilberries, you are referring to the same dark fruit. Its pulp runs throughout the soft center. The aroma of bitter almond mixes with dark berry notes even before the first piece is taken out of the tin. To ensure the berry stays juicy during baking, the fruit preparation is bound with pectin. This allows its aroma to spread to the very last crumb.

Fruity, juicy, delicate – alongside a pot of black tea, these cookies take on the role of cake in the afternoon. Crumbled over Greek yogurt with honey, they even add a Ligurian berry note to breakfast. Paired with a glass of cold milk in the evening, the tin rarely stays closed for long.

Postcards from the Amaretti Piazza

The Amaretti Virginia bakery made its location in Sassello so famous that old postcards called it the Piazza degli Amaretti Virginia.

Pietro Rossi turned his mother's inn recipe into a manufacture. In 1911, it won a gold medal in Paris, and the family still bakes them themselves to this day. The family wraps many of their amaretti by hand in colorful paper. Every tin contains over 160 years of baking experience. Sassello, a mountain town in the hinterland of Savona, has lived off this pastry for generations.

The dough, made with 46% apricot kernels and 1% almonds, is completely flour-free and is bound solely with egg white. That is why the blueberry variety is naturally gluten-free and lactose-free. International customers know them as Soft Amaretti Blueberry, and in Sassello, each piece is placed and baked individually. All soft amaretti from Amaretti Virginia are gathered on their own page.

From the tea table to dessert

Presented in a round decorative tin, Soft Blueberry Amaretti are just as suitable as a gift for a host as they are in your own kitchen cupboard.

Crumbled amaretti add dark fruit accents to a scoop of lemon sorbet or over warm rice pudding. A glass of Moscato d'Asti turns the tin into a quick dessert for guests. Crumbled amaretti, whipped cream, and a handful of fresh berries make a layered dessert in a glass in no time.

The soft orange almond macaroons from the same bakery provide the perfect counterpart for the coffee table. In winter, the tin makes a small gift to tuck under the tree; in summer, it accompanies a picnic in the park. Stored in a cool, dry place, the amaretti retain their juicy interior for months – the berry season doesn't end in September here.