St. Joseph's Zeppole Recipe: how to prepare it with cream and sour cherries

Saint Joseph's Zeppole

The recipe for St. Joseph's zeppole, to be prepared at home to celebrate Father's Day!

Traditionally prepared for the day of Saint Joseph, the zeppole, whether fried or baked, can not miss to celebrate this special day, also dedicated to all Pope the world.

It is a cake dedicated to the party of San Giuseppe especially in the south of Italy, while in the rest of the country it is a typical Carnival dessert.

So roll up our sleeves and get down to work to prepare these tasty cakes garnished with cream and black cherries.

Ingredients

For the cream:

500 ml milk
3 yolks
peel of 1 / 2 whole lemon
120 gr granulated sugar
70 gr flour 0

For the choux pastry:

50 g butter
30 grams of sugar
A pinch of salt
75 00 grams of flour
125 gr water
2 eggs and 1 yolk
peanut oil Qb

To garnish:

200 gr cherries in syrup
Powdered sugar Qb

We prepare the pasta of the zeppole

Put a saucepan with water over medium heat, add sugar, butter and a pinch of salt and heat. As soon as the butter is completely melted, we add the quantity of sugar.
Pour the flour all at once, mix everything quickly until a beautiful ball of dough is well mixed and cook for 1 minute; then removed from the fire. Put the dough in a kneader or, if you prefer, knead with a wooden spoon by adding the eggs one at a time, continuing to mix everything and not adding another egg until you have absorbed the previous one.

We fry the sweets

At this point, our choux pastry is ready. Cut out the squares of oven dough on which to form donuts of dough and let them rest for at least 10 minutes in the refrigerator. Cook the zeppole dipping them in boiling peanut oil until browned (as soon as they start to cook, the baking paper will come off on its own).

We will make and garnish

While the zeppole fry and cool, prepare the custard whisk sugar, eggs, flour and lemon peel and pour in the milk that you have previously heated. Put everything on low heat and cook until the cream is firmed.
As soon as they cool, the zeppoline will be ready. Before eating them, sprinkle them with icing sugar and then stuff both inside and out with the cooled custard and garnish with black cherries.

Now you can serve sweets to all the fathers ..Greeting!