One of confectionery and culinary peculiarities of Partinico is "cassatedda of chickpeas", a sweet that, in other parts, it is normally made with ricotta or cream. What appears unequivocal is that the "cassatedda" it is a typical dessert of a limited area of ​​Palermitano and precisely of Partinicese, mainly linked to the feast of San Giuseppe and the Carnival. The period in which the "cassatedde" inevitably coincided with Lent, which required the observant Catholic to renounce for 40 days to some foods, like meat, eggs, dairy product, animal fats etc.. It follows that the typical dessert of the San Giuseppe tradition, the "cassatedda", it could only contain the chickpea cream because the only one to be compatible with the strict religious prescriptions on the subject of lent fasting. The "cassatedda of chickpeas", era, then, a cake formed by a pastry pastry wrapper that contained a sweet and pleasant heart formed by a chickpea cream and enriched with honey, pumped up and a few flakes of chocolate and powdered cinnamon that amplify and harmonize the aromatic effect of all the components.