Campanile

Easter cake typical of the island of Corsica

Campanile, meaning "the bell tower", pl. campanili) is a Corsican cake generally shaped like a crown, made of yeast dough. It is a typical dessert of the cuisine of Corsica and is a traditional Easter cake: the boiled eggs in the cake look like little bells inside the bell tower and represent the renewed fertility of the earth after the end of winter, remembering also the tradition to unleash the bells at Easter, after having tethered them at Good Friday.