Tag: sweets

  • ZEPPOLES LACTOSE FREE, BAKED INTO OVEN

    ZEPPOLES LACTOSE FREE, BAKED INTO OVEN

    ZEPPOLES LACTOSE FREE, BAKED INTO OVEN.

    Recipe taken from lapiccolaquaglia.altervista.org

     I had eaten one zeppola and I was amazed to discover that they were zeppoles lactose free!

    This recipe was given to me by my cousin so I immediately wanted to imitate it, because now I have to copy everything.. next year I’ll do a version suitable for everyone: gluten-free, dairy-free, without eggs and everything else ahahahahh

    Ingredients:

    For the choux pastry:

    250 ml of water
    180 ml extra virgin olive oil
    1 teaspoon salt
    250 grams of flour 0
    6 eggs

    For the cream:

    500 ml of soy milk
    100 grams of brown sugar
    1 organic lemon scratch
    50 grams of flour 0
    50 grams of potato starch

    For decoration:

    Sour cherries in Syrup
    Powdered sugar

    Preparation time:

    15 minutes

    Rest time:

    10 minutes

    Cooking time:

    20-30 minutes (I used the gas oven, for the electric one start to control the cooking from 15 minutes onwards)

    Preparation:

    Place in a pan the water, oil and salt.

    When it boils, quickly pour the flour all at once and stir vigorously until the mixture does not detach from the walls of the pan: you will have to form a soft dough, compact and homogeneous. If it seems that the dough starts to scorch turn off the heat.

    Pour into a bowl and let it cool down for good.

    Preheat oven to 200 degrees.

    Join to the cold mixture the eggs, one by one, slamming with a wooden spoon until the dough will form air bubbles.

    Put it in a pastry bag with a large star-shaped nozzle of about 3 cm and form several donuts with closed bottom on a baking paper. If it result useful, you can draw the circles with a glass.

    When finished, place in preheated oven to 200 degrees and cook for about 20 minutes without ever opening the oven, in the highest part.

    Once this time has passed, if your zeppolas lactose free will be colored you may switch off and slightly open the oven door to see if the zeppole goes down, if yes cook a few minutes more. Let them dry thoroughly before removing them permanently from the oven.

    Into the meanwhile you are cooking zeppolas, you can prepare the pastry cream.

    In a pan, beat the eggs with the sugar and the lemon zest, until you got a clear color.

    Add the flour and, little by little, the cold soy milk. Place on a low heat and, scrambling, let it boil 5 minutes.

    Turn and work until the cream will not become very firm, almost harsh.

    If the appearance seems too liquid, add another tablespoon of flour and mix again to remove the lumps: whip in photography is excellent for this type of preparation.

    To give a more yellowish color, if you look too clear, you can add a pinch of turmeric.

    Let cool the cream, mixing occasionally to avoid formation of a surface skin, once both zeppole and cream will be cold, you can decorate with the help of the pastry bag.

    Finish the whole process, cutting in half a black cherry or sour cherry and placing it on top of each one of zeppolas lactose free and sprinkle with powdered sugar.

    Recipe and images by Ilaria.

    recipe and images from lapiccolaquaglia.altervista.org

  • Picnic desire: snacks with almond cream

    Picnic desire: snacks with almond cream

    Picnic desire: snacks with almond cream.

     it’s a recipe by Ricette da Coinquilinericettedacoinquiline.wordpress.com

    When I read this month’s theme, picnics, I have to be sincere: I was panicked!

    Luckily, Macchia came to the aid, Macchia is my great photogenic dog who started laying in my photographs – now with a muzzle, now with his mouth – and managed to give me a good idea: why stop at the outside picnic? We do both! And so on Pinterest I searched the word “indoor” next to “picnic” and found out that around there are a bunch of beautiful ideas for when it’s raining or cold, but the desire to eat on a sunny deck Is so much!

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    Also, among the ingredients I used almonds and flour: and what’s better about the use of flour and almonds of Dispensa dei Tipici managed by Nico?

    Ingredients:

    x9 snaks

    For the dough:

    4 eggs
    100 gr of soft wheat flour
    100 grams of white sugar

    For the cream:

    2 egg yolks
    50 grams of sugar (2 spoonfuls filled)
    Some drops of vanilla essence
    30 gr white flour (1 spoon filled)
    3 tablespoons filled with almond flour *
    250 ml of milk
    1 tablespoon filled with neutral yogurt

    For decoration:

    25 gr almond blades

    Preparation time:

    30 minuts

    Cooking time:

    15 – 20 minuts

    Cooling time:

    30 minuts

    Preparation:

    For the dough.

    Turn on the oven to 160°.

    With the planetary or electric shaker, pour eggs with sugar and salt pinch until they have tripled their volume – it will take about 10 minutes. They will have to be beautiful bubbly and fluffy.

    Then combine the fine flour, mixing gently.

    Pour the dough into a 26 × 35 pan covered with baking paper and bake for 15 minutes – or until it is dry (toothpick test) – then turn it off and cool completely.

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    For the cream.

    In a saucepan, beat the eggs with the sugar and the vanilla essence until you get a clear color. Combine the flour and the almonds and, little by little, the cold milk. Place them on a low heat and, always stirring, let it boil for at least 5 minutes. Turn and work until the cream has become smooth, hard. If the appearance seems too liquid, add another spoon of flour and mix to make the lumps disappear. To give a more delicate color, if you feel too light, you can add a bit of turmeric. Cool the cream, stirring occasionally to prevent the film from forming. Now combine a spoonful of yogurt and mix.

    Snacks assembling.

    Take the sponge cake, finish the edges and cut off strips about 3 cm wide and 24 cm long; Then cut each strip into three pieces long 8 cm each.

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    Take a rectangle, stuffed with abundant custard cream (2 tablespoons), then position over a second rectangle and spread over a cream veil again; it will serve as a glue for the almond blanks.

    Proceed until the cakes are full, then decorate them with almond blanks and finally place them on a plate and let them rest in the fridge for at least 30 minutes.

    The cakes are ready to be closed in a piece of paper oven and brought with you around! I recommend you put them in the fridge bag.

    Almonds flour:

    you can get the almond flour even by weighing the same amount into already shelled almonds and then shredding them in powder with a kitchen robot.

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    photo by Ilaria from ricettedacoinquiline.wordpress.com

  • Chiacchiere of Carnival, or crostoli, cenci, bugie …

    Chiacchiere of Carnival, or crostoli, cenci, bugie …

    Chiacchiere of Carnival, or crostoli, cenci, bugie …

    Recipe taken from caramellosalato.com by Moira Picco

    The chiacchiere of carnival, or crostoli if you are in Friuli, or frappe, Galani, cenci, depending on the region of Italy in which you are, are the most typical carnival sweet of Italy.

    Chiacchiere of carnival are crispy puff pastry, with a rectangular shape with one or two cuts in the center, worked out  with a rolling pin or the pasta machine, fried in oil and sprinkled with powdered sugar. So you get a crispy waffles, friable and light that will dissolve in the mouth. Someone make them finer, someone make them thicker, I prefer them very thin, in fact, I use to work them very thin with the pasta machine. To realize chiacchiere of carnival you need a few simple ingredients that usually everyone has in the pantry, such as flour, eggs, butter, sugar.

    Ingredients:

    280 gr. flour
    15 gr. wheat starch
    1/2 teaspoon baking powder
    30 gr. sugar
    1 teaspoon vanilla
    2 eggs
    1 vial of lemon flavor or lemon juice
    1 pinch of salt
    25 gr. butter
    Seed oil for frying

    Preparation time:

    20 minutes

    Cooking time:

    2-3 minutes

    Proceedings:

    Pour on a pastry flour, wheat starch and baking powder sifted and make a hole in the center

    At the center pour the sugar, vanilla, eggs, the aroma of lemon and a pinch of salt. With a fork, beat the eggs and start taking a bit ‘of flour from the sides of the fountain

    When you’ve got a thick paste can pour the softened butter cutted into small pieces

    Knead gently all the ingredients until you have a homogenous and compact compound. If the mixture is too hard you can soften by adding a little ‘of water or wanting the same amount of brandy. Now cover the dough with plastic wrap and let rest for 30 minutes at ambient temperature

    Take back the dough and divide it into 3 parts

    Pass each piece of the dough into the machine starting from the biggest hole and passing it several times until it is smooth. When the dough is smooth can be made to pass in the average thickness and then in the thinnest. Put the strips on a lightly floured work surface and cut with a serrated wheel in rectangles, making two center cuts

    Heat the seed oil, preferably peanut seeds, up to 180 degrees and dip the crostoli, and crostoli, turning, just a 2 minutes. Be careful that the oil temperature does not increase too much, if you lower the gas and wait for dips a bit ‘

    Arrange your crostoli on a serving plate and sprinkle with powdered sugar on each layer.

    images by caramellosalato.com