Recipe of baked “Zeppole di San Giuseppe” - Italian bakery 03/14/2018

The Zeppole di San Giuseppe is a sweet bread, like sugary doughnuts, covered with pastry cream and black cherry marmalade, generally the bread is fried (like doughnuts), depending on the zone of Italy they can be made as big as a doughnut or as small as a little doughnut 

Today I bring to you the version that I have tested so much, lighter and with strawberries

My daughters don’t like black cherries, so I had to make up a variant with strawberries 

The ingredients are:

• 300 grams of pastry cream (find the recipe on our blog by clicking the word)
• 180 ml of water 
• 45 grams of butter
• A pinch of salt 
• 120 grams of sifted flour 
• 3 eggs
• 3-4 tablespoons of sugar 
• 100 grams of strawberries 

Cut the strawberries in small chunks...

...place them in a pan with the sugar and a little water

Cover with a pan lid and cook at low heat, stir occasionally until they start to boil 

Continue mixing for a couple minutes, remove from heat and let cool

Now we’ll make the puff pastry. This pastry is also an adequate base for savory recipes

Pour the water in a pot, the butter and salt at low heat. When the butter is melted and it boils, remove from the heat

Add to the flour and mix until forming a basic paste

Add an egg one at a time and mix after adding. At the beginning it will look like the pastry doesn’t want to blend, be patient! 

Transfer the dough to a pastry bag. On top of a baking tray covered with oven paper, form the spirals

With this recipe I’ve formed 16 spirals, then we form a “nest” of pastry cream on the upper part. Another way to present the recipe is by creating small biscuits bigger than a walnut: with this disposition you can create small sweet bites to cut and fill

Bake in the oven at 200°C for 15 minutes, then lower the temperature to 160°C and cook for another 12-15 minutes 

This is the result 

Important: let cool before filling

Fill the pastry bag with the pastry cream and form the nests on top of the spirals 

First follow the form of the puff pastry and then the one of the external ring 

On the obtained nests place strawberries 

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