Sous Chef Amarena Cherry Panettone, 1kg

The Sous Chef Amarena Cherry panettone is our signature flavoured panettone - studded with the iconic Italian dark cherry. Is this your first time buying from us?

Nigella Lawson's Top Pick 2025: "It is utterly luscious, with a feathery light crumb so soft and buttery, I can’t eat it delicately but frenziedly tear and squidge each towering, cherry-glistening slice into greedy wodges, happy to have understood the point of panettone at last.

"It’s not so overwhelmingly fruited you could mistake it for a cherry cake, but the tender dough, almost like a laminated, aerate d brioche, contains just enough syrup-glossed sour cherries to add sudden bursts of juicy tang. It’s not even December yet and I’ve already gone through two."  Nigella, Financial Times 2025

Sharp-sweet dark Amarena cherries are scattered throughout soft buttery dough. It’s a wonderful combination of texture and flavour.

The Sous Chef Amarena Cherry panettone is produced by a family of bakers in the north of Italy. Each panettone should be prized for its extraordinary heritage and flavour.

Special mother yeast

The rich dough is made from their closely-guarded ‘mother’ yeast, the secret to the most flavoursome and lightest sourdough cake.

That ‘mother’ is a sourdough starter fed daily to ensure the freshest and lightest texture that gives the cakes their signature ‘tear’.

Nicola, Sous Chef founder, says “I visited the bakery in summer, and was thrilled to see the panettone ‘mother yeast’ rising in its locked room - known as the 'treasure room'!

"Only very few people have access to that historic sourdough starter. In fact, a piece of the same ‘mother’ is kept off site for security - locked in a bank vault! Panettoni producers argue about which ‘mother’ produces the best flavour. This one is superb!”.

Why not pair your panettone with a beautiful gift bag, the perfect size for our panettone.

The finest ingredients

Each panettone is slowly leavened over three days. Only the finest ingredients are selected for the finished cake. The eggs are free range. The raisins are juicy, from tumbling them together with rich rum flavours. Jewel-like citrus fruits are brilliantly large and tender.

A stunning hand-wrapped gift

Finally, the panettone is hand-wrapped with thick, luxury paper. Tied with a satin ribbon and tag, it's ready to give to friends and family.

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Product formulations and details may change. For the latest ingredients and allergen information always check product packaging prior to consumption. Ingredients: wheat flour, candied black cherries 21% (black cherries 12% in finished product, sugar, glucose syrup, water, acid: citric acid; black cherry juice, colours: anthocyanins; natural flavourings), butter (milk), pasteurized egg yolk, sugar, natural sourdough 6% (wheat flour, water), dark chocolate 6% (sugar, cocoa paste, cocoa butter, emulsifier: soy lecithin; natural vanilla
flavouring), emulsifiers: mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids; invert sugar syrup, salt, enzymes (contains wheat), malted wheat flour, natural flavourings (contains milk), natural vanilla extract from Madagascar beans

Allergy advice: For allergens see ingredients listed in bold. May contain mustard, soy, almonds, hazelnuts, pistachio nuts.

Storage: Store in a cool dry place.

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