All about home-made Colomba (Dove) cake

The Easter Colomba cake is one of the most complicated high rising sweets to make. In this blog you will find step by step recipes including all the tricks to help you make an excellent Colomba at home, as shown by the many pictures you sent me. Click here to upload your photos.

Recipe for home-made Colomba cake made with fresh yeast

The simplest recipe for colomba is the one that requires the use of fresh yeast. Click on the image to watch video recipe.

Home-made Colomba cake made with fresh yeast

The second recipe for home made colomba is the more traditional one, made with sourdough. Here you will find the link to the recipe for sourdough (poolish), the recipe to turn poolish into dry dough sourdough starter and the recipe for colomba. Click here to view the recipe for polish sourdough.