dolce buono!

How would you translate the word 'yum'? We use it when we talk about food. But it doesn't just mean good. It's delicious with wow factor. It's eyes rolling in the back of your head. It's an exclamation. It's a one word sentence. It's not easy to communicate its exact meaning.

It's like dolce buono to Italians. On its own it means sweet good. Doesn't give too much away, does it. But to Italians this means so much more and it is said in conjunction with a gesture, like a finger pointing at a tooth through a dimple in your cheek, drilling the finger into the cheek.
Enter cassata, possibly the sweetest thing you can eat here. Cassata is THE dessert of Sicily, more particularly Palermo. This is where it's from and this is where you will see more dolce buono finger pointing than anywhere.
I really, really like this dessert. It is layers of cake, sweetened ricotta, marzipan, chopped dried fruit and flecks of chocolate, topped with a frost like coating of icing. You getting the picture?

Roscoe and Timmy doing the dolce buono grin.