Lenten Sweets

Because they contain no additives or preservatives, our Lenten sweets keep for around 3 weeks. You can note your preference among them when ordering.

Romanengo's Lenten sweets are one of our great traditions.

The custom of preparing them in Genoa dates back to the 1500s, when the nuns of the convent of San Tommaso made simple almond-paste sweets with no butter, milk or eggs, observing the ban on animal fats during the 40 days before Easter.

Ever since, every year before Easter you can taste the variety of these sweets: canestrelli scented with orange blossom water, diamond-shaped mostaccioli with fig and lemon jam, and marzipan shaped on wafer discs and filled with fondant sugar syrup in various flavours.