Almonds, sugar, orange-flower essence
.These extremely elaborated sweetmeats are prepared from a dough into which slithers of sliced almonds are delicately folded.
Each exemplar is a minuscule sculpture: little vases, tiny shoes or diminutive baskets being the most usual.
Their glazed surfaces are then embroidered with threads of sugar and decorated in confectioner's gold - s'indoru. Their name derives from the festivity - Candlemas, in earliest February - for which they were traditionally prepared and distributed.