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Frutta martorana (also called frutta di Martorana or, in Sicilian, frutta marturana) is a Sicilian cuisine marzipan Sweetness in the form of fruits and vegetables from the provinces of Palermo LaCucinaItaliana.com: The Sicilian Fruit Martorana, by Salvatore Spatafora, 22 November 2022 and Trapani.
Realistically coloured with vegetable dyes, it is said to have originated at the Benedictines nunnery of Santa Maria dell'Ammiraglio, Palermo, known as La Martorana after its foundress, when nuns decorated empty fruit trees with marzipan fruit to impress an archbishop visiting at a season when the trees were not fruiting. It is traditionally put by children's bedsides on All Souls' Day. SicilianFoodCulture.com: The history of the "Frutta Martorana", 13 October 2019
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