In 1935 Dino Corsini became a Baker and, following in his father's footsteps, opened his shop the "Bottega" in the centre of the town of Porretta Terme. However, right from the start young Dino showed signs of a remarkable natural talent in the arts of pastry making. Thus, also thanks to the intuition of his wife Ventulia, in 1946 he created a cake called Torta Porretta, which was initially sold in small slices. In the beginning around two or three cakes were baked each day, but in the short space of a year that soon reached one hundred cakes per day, all hand-made.