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Somewhere inside this cold hard exterior of mine, as hard as it is to admit, there\u2019s always been this fantasy of being the person who gives out home-baked panettone every year during the holiday season.\u00a0 Not too early, not too late, just a couple gatherings after the first snowfall, the anticipation on the street would be, \u201cAny day now.\u201d\u00a0 It would be done right, gorgeous, plump, and permeating buttery decadent splendor that smells like long, scrutinized days in the kitchen.\u00a0 It\u2019ll say\u2026 she is awesome, god I hate her<\/em>.\u00a0 And needless to mention, arrived at your doorstep wrapped in black Japanese washi paper with a golden bow by Fedex Same-day Priority.\u00a0 It\u2019s gonna be part of my social persona, you see, the cherry on top of being my squad.\u00a0 You know, my panettone list<\/em>.\u00a0 Very cool.<\/p>\n

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But who am I kidding?\u00a0 I suspect that my genetic makeup has more in common with a sloth than a baker, or a friend for that matter.\u00a0 It\u2019s possibly why \u201cmy squad\u201d has only members of four-legged slobbers who prefer to chew on smoked pig\u2019s ear than fancy Italian bread.\u00a0 But, even with such self-acceptance, that is not to say that I have given up on festive, enriched, morbidly over-the-top breads that one could only allow themselves to enjoy once a year.\u00a0 And this year, boy, do I have good one.<\/p>\n

The inspiration came from an amazing panettone of last Christmas.\u00a0 Store-bought, no surprise there, but it was unexpectedly robust in this vanilla-y, nutty and warm-spiced flavor which set itself way apart from, excuse me, the other disgusting ones desecrated by unsolicited candied fruits and citrus peels\u2026 euh<\/em>.\u00a0 No, this panettone reminded me almost of\u2026 tiramisu.\u00a0 And what does tiramisu have?\u00a0 Kahlua and mascarpone.<\/p>\n

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Think of it this way:\u00a0 You take a brioche dough, and you instill it with a little bit of that Japanese tangzhong wisdom (a bread dough with part of its flour cooked, like a roux, to enhance moisture retention and texture).\u00a0 But instead of making the tangzhong with milk, you do it entirely with Kahlua coffee liquor, you see?\u00a0 With the alcohol cooked off, what is pleasantly left behind is the silhouettes of sugar canes, sweet butter and roasted chestnuts.\u00a0 You bake it in a very user-friendly bun-form, which already has stringy and translucent, soft and chewy crumbs.\u00a0 But what it lacks, or in fact is screaming desperately for, is a good piping of lightly sweetened mascarpone cream which cannot either confirm or deny that it has more Kahlua in it.\u00a0 At this point, it\u2019s too late to be sensical, so we might as well douse the buns with more melted butter, so much so that it becomes a welcoming wetland to entrap an onslaught of boldly salted spiced sugar, which is really powdered pistachio.<\/p>\n

So no, I\u2019m not sending you a panettone this year.\u00a0 But I doubt you\u2019ll complain.<\/p>\n

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