The recipe of the Sangennarini, the biscuits in honor of San Gennaro absolutely to be tasted!
In honor of the patron saint of Naples, San Gennaro, Leopoldo Infante, one of the most famous pastry shops in the city has re-proposed a new dessert from the name that recalls the saint.
I Sangennariniin fact, they are soft cookies butter stuffed with delicious jam to cherries very popular in Naples.
The recipe of the famous pastry is mostly secret, but we would still like to invite you to prepare them at home with us by following one our personal version and to taste them, hoping that in San Gennaro also like our variant!
Ingredients
- 120 gr softened butter
- 50 gr potato flour
- 1 bicarbonate spoon
- 250 gr flour
- 200 ml milk
- 1 spoon of baking powder
- 30 gr honey
- vanilla berries (replaceable with cinnamon if you want to stay true to the original version)
- 1 egg
- 170 gr sugar
Stuff and decoration
- black cherry jam
- icing sugar
Preparation of the cream
The promo step is whisk the butter at room temperature with the whips with sugar until it is a homogeneous cream. To the cream it will be necessary to add in this order: the egg (at room temperature), the honey, the milk, in which you will have to dissolve the baking soda, and the vanilla beans taken from the sprig. Mix the flour, potato starch and yeast aside, sifting them.
Preparation of the stuffing
Add the floury ingredients to the first mixture, incorporating them from top to bottom, without removing the cream. This mixture will be very creamy and sticky. As soon as it is ready, proceed by portioning it on a plate covered with parchment paper, using a teaspoon or a pastry bag. Be careful to give the pastries a precise size and shape: the classic shape of the biscuits is a circle of 3-4 cm in diameter.
Bake a 180 ° for 10 minutes and let it cool. Once cooled, the biscuits must be paired with the black cherry jam in the middle and sprinkled with plenty of powdered sugar.
