This year marks the eighth annual CincItalia at Harvest Home Park in Cheviot. With the 2017 festival comes new food and new vendors, most notably Ohio’s own Corbo’s Bakery. Family-run Corbo’s Bakery first opened in 1948 in Cleveland’s Little Italy.

The bakery is best known for its cassata cake: an Italian sponge cake with homemade custard, fresh strawberries and whipped cream icing. This signature dessert is known far and wide thanks to Mario Batali, one of the most recognized and respected chefs worldwide. After visiting the bakery in 2007, he deemed Corbo’s the best cassata cake he has tried anywhere in the U.S.