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The Italian flourless Hazelnut Cake Baldaiassa from Cortazzone Piedmont

The Hazelnut Cake or Hazelnut Pie without flour, certainly holds, first place as the sweet product of Hazelnuts most typical of the Piedmontese gastronomic tradition. Unfailing gluttony at the end of Sunday lunches or offered during visits by friends or relatives, accompanied with warm or savored zabaglione while sipping a sweet wine is certainly representative of the simplicity and genuineness that only the products of the past could offer.

The Hazelnut Cake, definitely the most typical sweet in the Piedmont tradition! This delicatessen had to be always present on the table at the end of the Sunday lunch, served with warm zabaglione or sweet wine.

It absolutely represents the old-days simplicity that only products of the past could offer. Maybe the only real secret that made such cake immortal lays beneath its simple and genuine ingredients: hazelnuts, sugar, eggs, butter and absolutely no wheat flour at all... wisely worked.

The original Hazelnut Cake of the Piedmont countryside never included wheat flour in its mixture, due to the fact that wheat flour, among a few other products of the land, represented the most important maintenance source and needed to be used with extreme parsimony.

The Hazelnut Cake from Cortazzone without wheat flour - Baldaiassa keeps a tight link with the ingredients and its traditional manufacturing, where the Piedmont “Tonda Gentile Trilobata” hazelnut definitely is the main ingredient, as far as quantity and flavour intensity.

Hazelnut Cake from Cortazzone without wheat flour Baldaiassa

Hazelnut Cake from Cortazzone without wheat flour Baldaiassa

The success of our sweet creation is certainly due to the use of hazelnuts partially deprived of their oil through a process that extracts such oil, equally important in Piedmont cooking history.

The Hazelnut Cake from Cortazzone without wheat flour - Baldaiassa is available for sale in two sizes: 330 g/13,20 OZ classic in elegant cardboard box and in the "pie" of 150 g/6 OZ as a single-portion.

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The Baldaiassa hazelnut processing laboratory

Hazelnuts, Hazelnut Oil, Piedmont and Italian Food sale and production

Logo Baldaiassa

Baldaiassa, in the province of Asti, Piedmontese hazelnut production area, has been dealing since 2009 with the sale of hazelnuts both retail and wholesale and the production of hazelnut oil, Italian food specialties and typical products from Piedmont with or without hazelnuts.

The production takes place directly in the Baldaiassa company laboratory, where hazelnuts are transformed into specialties and typical Piedmont sweet products: pastries and biscuits, cakes and bakery products, spreads and chocolate pralines or in other food specialties and typical products of Piedmont: pure Hazelnut Oil, strictly cold-pressed and the everlasting Bagna Cauda, prepared according to the different Piedmontese recipes with olive oil, hazelnut oil or walnut oil.

However hazelnuts are not for the exclusive use of the production of specialties and typical Piedmontese products; in fact, raw shelled hazelnuts, peeled toasted hazelnuts or partially peeled toasted hazelnuts are also on sale, that can be bought in vacuum packs of 1 kg or 250 g more suitable for retail sale. For wholesale, instead, there are on sale 25 kg bags or big bags prepared on customer request.

The production of Baldaiassa’s Piedmont food specialties, is not limited only to hazelnut-based products, it also includes a line of typical preserves: the Piedmontese appetizer or Giardiniera, "bagnet" sauces, jams and jellies such as those obtained from grape must freisa or muscat ideal to accompany meats and cheeses, the typical "bonet" pudding and much more, all available for sale according to seasonality, ready in a jar.

Sale of hazelnuts and Piedmont food in Italy and abroad

The sale of Baldaiassa’s Piedmont food specialties with or without hazelnuts, both in Italy and abroad, takes place mainly through the online shop.baldaiassa.it/en/ managed internally by the company, so that we can always offer fresh products purchased directly from the producer.

Piedmont Hazelnuts and Italian Food of Baldaiassa production for sale

The birth of the Baldaiassa and its history

The name Baldaiassa, conceived as a joke a few years earlier, derives from the meeting of words Baldizzone, surname of the owners, and Aiassa, the name of the farmhouse where the farm is physically located.

It's situated in the Municipality of Cortazzone, in a hilly area called Val Rilate, or in Monferrina portion known as Hills of Upper Monferrato of Asti.

The Aiassa, so nicely apostrophe, draws its origins from far away: the old municipal documents would carry it back to 1600, but it could perhaps go back to the previous periods.

The Aiassa farmhouse in the past

In the years of the splendor of these lands, the Aiassa, was among the most productive, functional and modern agricultural realities of the area, although hazelnut did not yet represent the main economy of the area.

Our ambition, with so glorious past, of course, is to go back to make proud a land unfortunately left to itself for too long, finding the productivity and the balance of "the past" but with the help of the most modern technologies of "today": first of all those of the communication.

That communication precisely, the absence of which, did not allow a renewal of the generations, resulting in a slow decline of the territory and that its continuation will inevitably lead to the loss of the most precious asset... their identity: made of flavors, traditions and cultural practices.

This is the land that Baldaiassa aims to tell with the production and sale of hazelnuts, its gastronomic specialties and typical Piedmontese products!

Sale typical Piedmontese products of Baldaiassa production

Among the typical Piedmontese products of Baldaiassa production, it is possible to rediscover the pleasure of the classic "sweets" and "salty" from Piedmont, some of which are peculiar to the cities of Turin, Asti, Alessandria and Cuneo, always fresh and available for sale in elegant gift boxes or practical freshness-saving bags.

The production of Baldaiassa sweet products is inspired by the centuries-old Piedmontese pastry and chocolate art, which certainly found its highest expression in the city of Turin, nevertheless in the smaller capitals such as Asti, Alessandria and Cuneo which were the place of origin of many typical Piedmontese sweet products, today celebrated all over the world.

Among the most popular typical Piedmontese sweet products of Baldaiassa production, could not miss the Hazelnut Cake from Cortazzone without wheat flour, for sale in an elegant gift box, the Baci di Dama with hazelnuts, the Ugly but Good with hazelnuts, the Krumiri with hazelnuts to name just a few.

The production of typical Piedmontese products Baldaiassa, as mentioned, is not limited only to sweets: on sale among the salted his majesty the Bagna Cauda, whose production takes place according to different recipes all typical from Piedmont: Bagna Cauda classic with olive oil, Bagna Cauda ancient recipe with hazelnut oil, Bagna Cauda northern recipe with walnut oil as well as a special line of typical regional preserves.

Typical Piedmontese products of Baldaiassa production

The typical Piedmontese products of Baldaiassa production, find their best representation in the word "galuparìa": term with which is defined a delicacy in the dialect of Piedmont. They are not necessarily sweets, nor exclusively savory dishes, they are simply those appetizing and traditional products, sometimes with long or complex preparations, which in the memory of every "child" by now grown up, only mum and grandmother know or knew how to make them so tasty... in short galuparìe... but ready for you by Baldaiassa production.

Typical Piedmontese products of Baldaiassa production

For the production of typical Piedmontese products Baldaiassa, the ingredients are chosen after a careful research, to the advantage, where possible, of those produced in Italy preferably in the regional context, for a greater fidelity of the recipes, preferring those obtained by means of natural and sustainable production techniques.

Free-range eggs, fresh milk, fresh cream butter as an alternative to vegetable margarines or hydrogenated fats, raw cane sugar... and so with the same principle all the other ingredients.

The continuous and constant search for the best raw material, sometimes involves small corrections during the production phase, so as to be able to offer for sale typical Piedmontese products always up to expectations.

The production of typical Piedmontese products Baldaiassa does not provide for the use of food additives, preservatives and artificial flavors, favoring more natural preservation techniques such as pasteurization, drying or elimination of air from the products, by expertly exploiting what nature makes available to us...

…here is how it happens the production of typical Piedmontese products Baldaiassa that you will find on sale!

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