Carnival cakes: fried donuts like the bar !
What are the fried donuts?
Among the typical sweets of carnival a sweet always present are fried donuts, with their soft dough and with a dust of icing sugar It’s gonna be really hard to resist.
There are variations in which the boiled potato is added to the dough to make the dough more delicate, this variant is typical of the bell kitchen and are commonly called Neapolitan scratches.
How to prepare fried carnival donuts
Ingredients for 14 donuts about
-500 of type 00 flour
-100 grams of sugar sowing
-150 gr of butter
-3 whole eggs
-1 sachet of baking powder (16 gr)
-1 bag of vanillin
-1 glass of Marsala or other dry liquor
Preparation and procedure for fried carnival donuts
- Mix in a flour container, melted butter, eggs, yeast, vanillin and a glass of marsala until you get a very compact and not too soft compound.
- Then wrap it with the film and let it rest in the fridge for half an hour or a little more.
- Take the dough, sprinkle it with a small rolling pin in a half-centimeter pastry and make doughnuts with the help of 2 cup pasta of different sizes or 2 glasses.
How to cook and serve fried donuts
- At this point fry the donuts in boiling oil until they brown well, then lean them on absorbent paper to ensure that they dry from excess oil.
- So sprinkle with soured sugar and taste it.
If you don’t want to create the classic donut shape, but you like a cream-filled bomb, create a round disk with the cupcapasta without tapping it in the middle.
So by frying in oil a fried bomb, which can be stuffed with cream or nutella.
Fried donuts with potatoes or Neapolitan graffes
As mentioned before, there is the variant of these donuts with the addition of boiled potatoes in the dough, very soft and very delicate calls carnival. Now let’s see how to prepare them.
Ingredients:
-500gr of flour
-250gr of potatoes
– half glass of milk
-50gr soft butter
– grated lemon rind
-1 beer yeast panetto
-1 egg
-50gr sugar
How to Make a Carnaval Graffe
- After boiling and peeling the potatoes crush them to create a puree (we recommend the use of the potato pass).
- Pour the flour to the fountain and put the eggs inside and the yeast dissolved in milk and softened butter, then start to mix the ingredients with a fork or with the hands.
- Finally, add the mashed potatoes, sugar and lemon zest.
- Obtained a homogeneous mixture, start creating doughs and let them rest for 2 orchards covered by a wet canoe.
- At this point fry them in boiling oil, then sprinkle them with sugar and good appetite.
