The cassatella Agira is a cake of ancient origins, an essential element of traditional agirina. It is difficult to document the history of casatella because there are no written sources about it. Oral sources that can be obtained on the territory of Agira, are therefore related to an empirical knowledge of the subject and often refer to a quite limited period of time, coincident with the personal experience of the artisan. At least in its earliest version called pasticciotto since disappeared, it had a circular shape and was characterized by a button at the center of the upper disk, as if to recall another Sicilian sweet, the minn 'and virgin, sweet dedicated to Sant'Agata. In the ancient history of Agira, the culture that undoubtedly has the greatest impact on the birth of cassatella Agira is Spanish to which were added elements agropastoral and baronial, commingling rich and poor that would converge in traditional cassatella ricotta noble elements such as almonds and cocoa, with chickpea flour to fulfill the role of condensing natural, widely available and cost of the filling. Suggestive hypothesis on which we have no historical records to comfort, but remains fully compatible with the elements at our disposal.