The arcane is revealed. I might have understood my personal connection between marzipan and Christmas. It took a few days, before it came back to my mind one of the typical treat of the Tuscan Christmas: ricciarelli. 

While in Italy, I widely meditated on the food to make during Christmas time. My husband has kindly indicated that he doesn’t wish the traditional home-baked panettone (he came home with a pack of an industrial one, which has cost him some money though :P). Despite that, we agreed I will bake pandoro by following the wonderful Simili’s recipe (not too bad as a solution given that pandoro takes “only” a day and a half…nothing compared to the three days needed for panettone!).