Heritage
A family pastry house with more than twenty years of craft, born from two chefs and grown into a true Sicilian institution.
Producer · Aci Platani, Catania
Over twenty years of artisan Sicilian pastry. A family workshop near Catania whose fragrant brioscia co' tuppu — the brioche made for gelato — is baked fresh every day and shipped across Europe and beyond.
Our story
How a sweet thing is born.
It is 1997 when two pastry chefs in love with their craft decide to bet on a dream: a workshop of their own, devoted to artisan Sicilian pastry. They are Lucio Pappalardo and his mother — the heart and mind of SP&F, a small dolciario workshop near Aci Catena, in the province of Catania.
The pair soon becomes a trio with Sabrina, Lucio's wife and a pillar of the house. Their first commissions: hand-finished brioche for local street vendors and gelaterie — a success that, in time, would reach far beyond Sicily.
The House
A workshop that feels like home.
1997
Founded as SP&F, an artisan pastry workshop near Catania.
1,000+ m²
The Aci Platani plant, grown from a 300 m² historic lab.
700 kg
Of raw materials worked by hand every single day.
1.5M+
Fragrant brioche baked and shipped each year.
Scheda Producer
Why Sicula Briosce belongs in the ZAGARA selection.
Craft
The skilled hands of master pastry chefs, a journey through flavour led by artisan method and respect for raw materials.
Innovation
Special freshness-saving capsules keep each brioche's shelf-life intact in transit — a stroke of genius that changed the game.
House fit
Already shipped to Italy, Europe, America and Australia — the authentic Sicilian brioche for the discerning gelato moment.
The signature
Brioscia co' tuppu.
The soft Sicilian brioche with its little topknot — the tuppu — is the island's classic companion to gelato and granita. Good as tradition demands, with artisan workmanship and quality ingredients as its thread.
To carry that freshness across the world, every brioche is sealed in the house's freshness-saving capsules, so it arrives as fragrant as the moment it left the oven.
From Sicily, daily
Baked fresh, sealed fresh, shipped worldwide.
Around 700 kg of raw materials worked by hand each day, turned into over a million and a half brioche a year — and sent, fragrant, across four continents.
Artisan madeFreshness sealedSince 1997Italy · Europe · America · Australia
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