Bomboloni are famous and loved sweets all over the world: fried or baked, filled with cream, chocolate or jam, bomboloni are always good and everyone likes them!
For an energetic breakfast, for an alternative snack, bomboloni with their soft and fluffy dough are perfect for any occasion.
With this recipe we see together how to prepare them at home and make them perfect!
Cream and Chocolate Bomboloni
Delicious Italian Desserts
Ingredients
For the Bomboloni
- 1/2 package Fresh Yeast
- 1/2 cup Warm Milk
- 1/4 cup Sugar plus extra for dusting
- 1/2 tsp Salt
- 1 3/4 cup Unbleached, All-Purpose Flour plus extra for rolling the dough
- 1 tsp Vanilla
- 2 1/2 tbsp Unsalted Butter melted
- 3 cups Canola Oil
For the Cream Filing
- 3 Egg Yolks
- 3 tbsp Sugar
- Zest of 1 Lemon grated
- 1/8 cup Unbleached, All-Purpose Flour
- 1 cup Whole Milk
For the Chocolate Filing
- Chocolate-hazelnut spread
Instructions
Making the Bomboloni
- In the beginning, pick a large bowl or the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a dough hook and combine in together the flour, yeast, salt, sugar, and lemon zest.
- Stir well to incorporate.
- Add the flour, vanilla and butter. Stir well to form a dough.
- Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured counter and knead for 5 to 10 minutes until the dough is smoothed.
- Roll the dough out until it is 1/4 inch thick.
- Using a 3-inch round cookie cutter, or the rim of a glass, cut into disks.
- Move the disks to another clean work surface dusted lightly with flour.
- Bring together the leftover scraps of dough, roll them out, and cut out the remaining disks.
- You should end up with 14 disks.
- Cover them with a kitchen towel and allow them to rise for 2 hours, or until doubled.
- You could also refrigerate them, covered well, and fry them the next morning.
Making the Cream Filing
- In a large bowl or the bowl to a standing mixer, beat the egg yolks, granulated sugar, and lemon zest on medium speed, until they become lemon colored and thick.
- Reduce speed to low.
- Slowly add the flour and beat until well blended.
- Heat milk almost to a boil over medium heat in a medium saucepan.
- Turn off heat just before milk boils.
- Add 2 tablespoons of the hot milk to the egg mixture, while beating on low heat.
- Continue beating the mixture, and add the remaining warm milk in a slow, steady stream. (Adding the milk too fast or not beating the mixture while adding the milk will cause the eggs to curdle).
- Once all of the milk has been added, increase the speed to medium and beat for 1 minute.
- Pour custard back into the medium saucepan.
- Cook custard for 5 minutes over medium heat, stirring constantly.
- Custard is done when it coats the back of a spoon and you can run your finger through it without the edges running into the middle.
- Allow to cool.
- Cover the top with plastic wrap so that it does not form a skin.
- Refrigerate until the bomboloni are ready to be filled.
Frying the Bombolini and adding the Cream Filing
- Heat the canola oil in a large, deep pan over medium heat to 300 degrees F.
- Fry the bomboloni 4 or 5 at a time, for 2 to 3 minutes each side, or until golden.
- Remove with a slotted spoon and place on a plate lined with paper towels.
- Dust with sugar on each side.
- Continue with remaining doughnuts.
- With a small knife, make a hole halfway through the bomboloni, being careful not to puncture the sides.
- Fill a pastry bag with the cream.
- Pipe the cream into the center of each pastry, taking care not to over stuff it.
Add the Chocolate Filing
- Spoon your favorite chocolate filling into a piping bag fitted with a medium nozzle.
- To finish, make a small hole in the side of each doughnut, push in the nozzle and squeeze to fill the bomboloni and Serve warm, ENJOY!!
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