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Amazing Bomboloni: Traditional Italian Doughnuts with Creative Fillings

Amazing Bomboloni: Traditional Italian Doughnuts with Creative Fillings
Prep
180 min
Cook
60 min
Total
240 min
Serves
12
Calories
424 kcal

Ingredients

  • 2 cupsstrong bread flour
  • 2 cups00 flour or all purpose flour
  • 3 largeeggs (at room temperature)
  • 6.5 tbspbutter (softened)
  • 1/2 cupgranulated sugar
  • 1/2 cuplukewarm milk
  • 1/2 tspvanilla paste
  • 2 1/4 tspfast action yeast
  • 1 pinchsalt
  • 2-3 tbspcaster sugar or confectioners sugar (for rolling doughnuts)
  • —sunflower or vegetable oil (for frying)
  • 2.5 cupsmilk
  • 1/4 cupcornstarch
  • 1/3 cupsugar
  • 1/2 tspvanilla pasta or 1 vanilla bean
  • Zest of 1lemon

Instructions

  1. 1

    Activate the yeast if necessary and mix the flour, sugar, and yeast in the mixer bowl.

  2. 2

    Add butter, eggs, milk, vanilla, and salt; knead the dough.

  3. 3

    Let the dough rise until tripled in size.

  4. 4

    Shape and cut dough into doughnuts, let them rise again.

  5. 5

    Fry the doughnuts until golden brown and drain them.

  6. 6

    Fill the doughnuts with pastry cream and serve immediately.