Which panettone to choose: a guide to the six flavours
Six panettoni, one table: how do you choose? We have already described the ingredients of each flavour one by one in the article Lapenna panettoni 2026: the six flavours. Here we go a step further: we compare the flavours, so you can work out which one is right for you, or for the person you want to give it to.
The first question: fruit or chocolate?
If we had to split the collection in two, this is where we would start. On one side, the panettoni where fruit takes centre stage; on the other, those built around cocoa. In between, two flavours that go their own way.
- With fruit: the Tradizionale Innovativo and the Albicocca & Zafferano.
- With cocoa in the spotlight: the Intense Noir Dark and the Gianduia Intenso.
- Off the beaten track: the Cremino Caffè and the Pistacchio Cherry.
If you love the classics
The answer is the Tradizionale Innovativo, with candied Sicilian orange and Australian Sei Corone raisins. It is the flavour you recognise straight away, the panettone you have always known.
Do you like the idea of fruit but fancy something different? Then look at the Albicocca & Zafferano: here the Pellecchiella apricot from Vesuvius meets PDO saffron from L'Aquila, and there is also dark chocolate from Ecuador with a light crumble. It is still a fruit panettone, but with an unexpected accent.
If you love chocolate: Intense Noir Dark or Gianduia Intenso?
These are the two flavours closest to each other, and this is usually where the doubt arises. Both have cocoa, double dark chocolate and cocoa crumble. What makes the difference is their travelling companion:
- in the Intense Noir Dark the chocolate, at 55% and 65%, comes with sour cherries and tonka bean;
- in the Gianduia Intenso it meets hazelnut paste and pieces of gianduia.
In short: if you like chocolate paired with fruit, choose the first; if you think chocolate goes best with hazelnut, the second.
If you are looking for something different
The Cremino Caffè is for those who always have an espresso cup within reach: coffee is combined with a white chocolate cremino with Madagascar vanilla. A slice at breakfast, next to the first coffee of the day, could become your little holiday ritual.
The Pistacchio Cherry, on the other hand, is the right gift for pistachio lovers: they will find it twice, as a ganache and in cubes, with ruby chocolate chips.
If it is a gift and you don't know their tastes
When you don't know what the recipient likes, the Tradizionale Innovativo is a choice you can hardly get wrong. If you know the person well, let what they order at the café guide you: those who always have coffee will appreciate the Cremino Caffè, those who choose pistachio ice cream the Pistacchio Cherry, and those who go straight for dark chocolate the Intense Noir Dark.
Two panettoni on the table
If the holidays at your house are long and busy, you can put two on the table that complement each other. A few ideas:
- Tradizionale Innovativo and Gianduia Intenso: candied fruit on one side, chocolate and hazelnut on the other;
- Albicocca & Zafferano and Intense Noir Dark: two different ways of combining fruit and chocolate;
- Cremino Caffè and Pistacchio Cherry: for a table that loves surprises.
Where to find them
You will find them all in the Panettoni collection. And if you are wondering what to put next to them, the Christmas collection also has our holiday sweets.