Stuffed Biscuits with Jam

There is nothing better than this sweet recipe of stuffed biscuits as first recipe of the new year: it is an ideal recipe for the period of Christmas feast but these biscuit are ideal also for all the days of the year. The recipe of these biscuits comes from Trentino Alto Adige and it is a simple and fast Italian recipe; the biscuits are made of two parts: a lower part and an upper part with holes and in the middle the sweet jam of strawberry of other fruit as you prefer. The upper part of these biscuits can be with or without holes but the presence of holes the exit on the surface of the jam that let them more colour.

INGREDIENTS (for 6 people):
250 g of Flour
125 g of Butter
8 g of Yeast for sweet
A pinch of salt
1 or 2 Eggs
90 g of Sugar
10g of Vanillina
150g of Jam of strawberry
Some icing sugar

PREPARATION TIME: 1 hour and 30 minutes

COOKING TIME: 20 minutes

WINE: Malvasia di Casorzo d'Asti Doc (Red Wine)

PREPARATION
Place in a bowl the flour, the butter, the yeast, the salt, the eggs, the sugar and the vanillina, mix all together until you obtain an homogeneous dough

then roll up the dough in a sheet of film and place it in fridge for 30 minutes.


After this time preheat the oven to 180°C, with the help of a rolling pin roll out the dough in order to obtain a pastry of 3 – 4 cm of thickness.



Now with shapes of different form cut the pastry in an even number of pieces :this because each biscuit is made of two parts, a lower part and an upper part with holes. Cover the bottom of a baking pan with a sheet of a baking paper, place on it the biscuits and bake them for about 10 – 15 minutes until the surface of the biscuits becomes slightly golden.


Then let them cool and place some jam of strawberry over the biscuits without holes, now cover it with the other biscuit of the same form but with holes.


When all the biscuits are ready place them on a platter and sprinkle with some icing sugar before serve.
This is the result:


BUON APPETITO!

Biscuits with Hazelnuts

This is a another delicious Italian recipe of biscuits made of hazelnuts and cacao. As the other recipes of biscuits present in this website, this recipe is very simple and easy to realize in order to obtain biscuits ideal for a good Italian breakfast, in particular they are perfect dipped in a cup of milk or in a cup of hot chocolate!








INGREDIENTS (for 6 people)
250 g of Flour
120 g of Sugar
80 g of Butter
40 g of Cacao
150 g of Hazelnuts
1 Egg
30 ml of Milk
8 g of Baking powder

PREPARATION TIME: 15 minutes

COOKING TIME: 10 – 15 minutes

PREPARATION
Preheat the oven to 150°C. In a bowl place the sugar and the butter,

mix them until you obtain a kind of cream. Blend the hazelnuts, now add to the butter and sugar the egg, the blended hazelnuts, the cacao and the milk and mix all together.

At the end add the flour and the backing powder

and mix in order to obtain a dough as shown in the picture below.

With the help of a rolling pin roll out on a floured worktop the dough 1 cm thick and cut biscuits with cutter of different shape.


Place the biscuits on a baking pan and bake for 10 – 12 minutes.

This the result:

BUON APPETITO!

Christmas Biscuits

This is the typical dessert that my grandmother prepares for the Christmas Eve and the Christmas Day. They are biscuits similar to ravioli and their filling is made with chestnuts, chocolate, coffee, milk, biscuits, raisins and candied fruits. This is the original recipe but if you want you can prepare a filling made only of chocolate, milk and biscuits.The preparation is a bit long but the result is delicious.
Merry Christmas








INGREDIENTS FOR THE FILLING (for 10 people)
1 Kg of Chestnuts
250 ml of Milk
125 ml of Coffee
100 g of Chocolate
25 g of Raisins
30 g of candied citron
1 Orange
2 Tablespoons of Sugar
6 - 8 Biscuit

INGREDIENTS FOR THE DOUGH (for 10 people)
500 g of Flour
4 Eggs
80 g Butter
150 g of Sugar
1 Glass of milk
1 Pinch of salt
Extra virgin olive oil to fry

PREPARATION TIME: 1 hours and 30 minutes

COOKING TIME: 45 minutes

WINE: Moscato d’Asti (White Wine)

PREPARATION
Preparation of the filling: place the raisin in a bowl with water for about 15 minutes.

Peel the chestnuts, place them in a pan with some water and let them boil for about 30 minutes. In the meantime make the coffee. When the coffee is ready place it in a pan, add the milk and the chocolate and let it melt.

Crumble the biscuits and add them to the coffee.

Then mince the raisin, the candied citron and add them to the coffee together with the grated peel of the orange.

When the chestnuts are cooked, let them cool, peel, blend them and add them to the coffee.

Mix all together and blend all in a mixer until you obtain a homogeneous mixture as shown in the picture below.

Preparation of the dough: place the flour and the sugar as a fountain over a worktop.


Add in the middle the eggs, the butter, the milk and the salt.


Knead for about 10 minutes until you obtain homogenous dough.


Then with the help of a rolling pin, roll the dough out on a worktop sprinkled with flour to a sheet of thin thick and with the help of a glass cut the pastry in discs.


Each biscuit is made of two discs of pastry one below and one over. Place the discs of the pastry on a worktop sprinkled with flour and put in the middle of them one teaspoons of the stuffing.


Then cover the stuffing with another disc and cut the border in triangles and raise one every two as shown in the following picture.


Place in a pan the extra virgin olive, lei it hot and fry in it he biscuits one at a time.

This is the result:

BUON APPETITO!

Almond Biscuits

This is another delicious Italian recipe of biscuits made of macaroons and almonds. Also these biscuits, like cacao biscuits presented in a previous recipe, are perfect for Italian breakfast. In particular they are very good also with a cup of hot chocolate








INGREDIENTS (for 6 people)
250 g of Flour
120 g of Sugar
80 g of Butter
1 Egg
10 Almonds
8 g of Baking powder
5-6 Macaroons

PREPARATION TIME: 15 minutes

COOKING TIME: 10 – 15 minutes

PREPARATION
Preheat the oven to 150°C. In a bowl place the sugar and the butter, mix them until you obtain a kind of cream.

Now add the egg, the crumbled macaroons and the crumbled almonds and mix all together.

At the end add the flour and the backing powder and mix in order to obtain a soft dough.


With the help of a rolling pin roll out on a floured worktop the dough 1 cm thick and cut biscuits as shown in the figure below with the help of cutter of different shape.


Place the biscuits on a baking pan and bake for 10 – 12 minutes.

This the result:

BUON APPETITO!

Cacao Biscuits

This is a delicious Italian recipe: cacao biscuits made of macaroons and cacao. This recipe is very simple and easy to realize in order to obtain biscuits ideal for a good Italian breakfast, in particular they are perfect dipped in a cup of milk. Italian breakfast is completely different from breakfast of the other country; indeed typical ingredients of Italian breakfast are milk with coffee, biscuits, assorted jams, bread rolls, brioches and cornetti with or without filling of cream or jam.








INGREDIENTS (for 6 people)
250 g of Flour
120 g of Sugar
80 g of Butter
40 g of Cacao
1 Egg
30 ml of Milk
8 g of Baking powder
5-6 Crumbled macaroons

PREPARATION TIME: 15 minutes

COOKING TIME: 10 – 15 minutes

PREPARATION
Preheat the oven to 150°C. In a bowl place the sugar and the butter, mix them until you obtain a kind of cream.

Now add the egg, the crumbled macaroons, the cacao and the milk and mix all together.


At the end add the flour and the backing powder and mix in order to obtain soft dough.


On a floured board with the help of a rolling pin roll out the dough 1 cm thick and cut biscuits as shown in the figure below.

Place the biscuits on a baking pan and bake for 10 – 12 minutes.


This the result:


BUON APPETITO!