'Pandoro o panettone': the all Italian festive dilemma | A Coffee Break with Francesca
Coffee Break Italian
Coffee Break Languages
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2025
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
In today's mini-lesson, Francesca from the Coffee Break Italian team is here with a delicious espresso lesson all about Italy’s favourite festive sweet treats! 🎄🍰
She introduces you to two iconic holiday cakes:
➡️ il panettone, the classic Milanese Christmas staple
➡️ il pandoro, the soft, buttery favourite from Verona
Francesca shares a bit of history, how she likes to enjoy them, and of course… reveals her favourite! And you... Are you team panettone or team pandoro? 😉✨
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| 0:00.0 | Ciao and welcome, |
| 0:02.6 | benvenuti a coffee break Italian. |
| 0:06.8 | I am Francesca and today I have the pleasure of joining you for a coffee break. |
| 0:15.3 | As always, I'm here to help you improve your Italian little by little through these short mini lessons. |
| 0:24.3 | All right, the argument of today is something of much typical of the period natalizio in |
| 0:33.9 | Italy. Guess what? Well, we're talking |
| 0:37.6 | the |
| 0:38.2 | choice |
| 0:38.9 | between |
| 0:39.5 | Pandoro and |
| 0:41.1 | Panettone. |
| 0:46.6 | I've |
| 0:47.9 | decided to |
| 0:48.9 | talk |
| 0:49.4 | to this |
| 0:50.3 | argument |
| 0:50.8 | because |
| 0:52.1 | probably |
| 0:53.2 | a |
| 0:53.8 | day I had mangated the first Pandor This argument, because, just a couple of year ago |
| 0:54.4 | I've managed the first Pandoro of the season. |
| 1:00.3 | Yes, I had my first Pandoro of the season. |
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