Almonds, sugar, eggs, flour, vanilla dust
These sweets are typical of Quartu Sant'Elena, now a large town in southern Sardinia which looks out over the Gulf of Angels. And angelic are Quartu's cake and sweet-making traditions of which the mustazzoleddus are emblematic. These soft little mouthfuls are simply though exquisitely made - almonds, eggs, sugar and flour, before the careful addition of vanilla dust which give these sweets their distinctive delicacy. Each bakeress will measure the ingredients at a glance, applying the lessons she has learnt while watching her own mother and aunts since she was a little girl.