Too good these baked struffoli without butter and with a different cover from the usual honey

Let’s prepare baked struffoli without butter and with a different coating from the usual honey-proiezionidiborsa.it

Struffoli are one of the most delicious Christmas desserts. The traditional recipe calls for them to be fried and covered in honey. But let’s see how to prepare them in the oven and what to use instead of the classic honey.

There are only a few days left before one of the most awaited festivities of the year arrives and in the homes of Italians preparations for Christmas lunch are in full swing.

The house has been decorated, the presents are under the tree and the lunch menu has been decided a long time ago.

Alongside the first and second courses, our tables cannot miss the tipical desserts. Not only pandoro and panettone, but each region has its own specialities. Bought in pastry shops or prepared at home, traditional desserts always make a great impression.

A typical Christmas dessert

The list of Italian sweets is really very long. The typical Panforte of Siena, the Apulian Cartellate, the Bolognese Certosino, up to the Neapolitan struffoli.

And it is precisely the struffoli that we want to talk about in the next few lines. We are referring to a Neapolitan Christmas dessert that is prepared throughout the South. They are small balls of dough who come fried and covered in honey. To make them more colourful, add the sugar sprinkles.

Struffoli are loved by adults and children and are so good that one leads to another.

Struffoli are small balls of dough that are fried and covered with honey and decorated with colored tails

Struffoli are small balls of dough that are fried and covered in honey and decorated with colored sprinkles-proiezionidiorsa.it

Too good these baked struffoli without butter but with the addition of chocolate

The traditional recipe calls for them to be fried in seed oil, but in the next lines instead we will find out how to prepare them in the oven. They will be lighter but equally tasty.

Also, for the coverageinstead of the classic honey we will use a chocolate ganache.

Here are the ingredients:

300 g of 00 flour;
2 eggs;
25 g of seed oil;
30 g of sugar;
1 teaspoon of liqueur of your choice (optional);
orange or lemon zest to taste;
a pinch of salt.

For coverage:

200 g of dark chocolate;
80 ml of cream;
toasted almonds to taste;
colored sprinkles to taste

Method

These baked struffoli without butter are too good, let’s see how to prepare them.

In a bowl we pour the sifted flour, the eggs, the sugar and the pinch of salt. Let’s start mixing and also combine the seed oil, the grated rind of an orange and the liqueur.

We knead all the ingredients until you get a nice smooth dough. Let’s let it rest the dough for about 30 minutes at room temperature, wrapped in a transparent film.

After this time, we make loaves with a diameter of about 1 cm and cut small chunks (about 1 cm thick).

Place them on a baking tray lined with parchment paper. Bake them in the oven for 15 minutes to one temperature of 180 degrees. Once cooked, they should be well browned.

Meanwhile, let’s prepare there chocolate ganache. Let’s heat the cream and as soon as it comes to a boil, add the chocolate into small pieces. Let it melt by mixing with a hand whisk and turn off the heat.

Let the ganache cool for a few minutes and let’s dip the struffoli.