The donuts filled with custard are one of the most delicious and satisfying recipes!
Soft clouds of exquisite goodness, i Stuffed donuts are one of the most rewarding desserts that you can taste.
Cheap and easy to prepare this typical dessert of Carnival, and not only, it is tasted all over the world in its most imaginative variations and its greedy fillings.
In Naples we usually enjoy the Bomboloni, soft and irresistible clouds of fried brioche dough and covered with a layer of powdered sugar, filled with gold custard classic. Whether you want to taste these delicacies in San Valentino, we suggest you to cut them in heart shape and stuff them with chocolate, at Carnival or as a simple snack we suggest you do it in the company of other gourmands.
Ingredients
- 500 gr already boiled potatoes
- 500 gr strong flour (type for pizza) plus a little bit for processing
- 50 gr melted butter
- 75 gr sugar
- 3 eggs
- the zest of a lemon
- a pinch of vanilla
- 40 gr fresh brewer's yeast
- 1 glass of milk
- powdered sugar to taste
- Peanut oil qs
- 200 gr classic custard
- powdered vanilla sugar for dusting
Prepare the donuts
Boil the potatoes and crush them when they are still warm. Collect the mashed potatoes in a bowl and knead adding the flour and the dissolved yeast in a glass of milk. Add the eggs, the sugar, the melted butter, the vanilla and the well washed lemon peel.
Add all the remaining milk little by little making sure that a smooth and homogeneous paste is created.
Fate increase the dough mixture for at least 1 now after which it will be necessary to spread it on a pastry board reaching a thickness of 1 cm and obtain lots of disks (or little hearts). Let bump up again the disks obtained on a baking sheet covered with parchment paper at least for other 30 minutes.
Fry the donuts
Fry the donuts in plenty of peanut oil, at least 2 minutes per side or until they brown well. Drain them with a perforated spoon and place them on absorbent kitchen paper. Fill them with custard using a pastry bag or simply as if they were sandwiches.
Sprinkle with plenty of powdered sugar vanilla before tasting them hot.
