Hey guys, the good witch of My-personaltrainer wants to take you for a ride in her flying broom: would you like the idea? I'll take you to my kitchen and prepare the bones for the dead! There are many variations to prepare these characteristic Halloween cookies, but I propose the Venetian version: let's prepare the dead bones together!
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Identity Card of the Recipe
- 291 KCal Calories per serving
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Ingrediants
For the dough
- 200 g of Manitoba flour
- 15 g of brewer's yeast
- 70 ml of milk
- 40 g of butter
- 1 pinch of salt
- 1 vial of aniseed aroma or half a glass of anise
- 50 g of sugar
- 20 g (1 medium) of egg yolks
To brush
- 40 g (1 medium) of egg white
Materials Needed
- Bowls of various sizes
- Wooden spoon
- Transparent film
- Latex gloves (optional)
- Precision balance
- Baking plate
- Baking paper
- Brush
Preparation
- Sift the flour and pour it into a bowl.
- Crumble the brewer's yeast and dissolve it in warm milk, together with a teaspoon of sugar.
- Gently melt the butter in the microwave or in a double boiler.
- Pour the melted butter, the remaining sugar, the milk with the yeast and a yolk in the center of the flour. Also add the anise (or the aniseed flavor) and a pinch of salt, then work the dough, first in the bowl, then by hand on the pastry board: you will have to obtain a smooth and compact dough, just like bread.
- Place the dough in a bowl and cover with a sheet of cling film: let it rest in a warm environment for about 3 hours or until doubled in volume.
- Work the dough quickly with the help (if necessary) with a handful of flour. Divide the dough into 12-14 parts and obtain from each a cord about 10 cm long, with a diameter of 2 cm. From each loaf cut a shape of bone, lengthening the central part and swelling the ends as shown in the video.
- Arrange the bones obtained in an oven plate lined with greaseproof paper and bake immediately in a preheated oven at 150 ° C for 15 minutes.
- Remove the dead bones from the oven and brush the surface with egg white to make them shiny.
- Leave dead bones to rest and harden overnight (or 8-10 hours).
- After the necessary time, cook the bones again from dead: then put the plate in the oven and cook at 150 ° C for another 20 minutes until the surface is browned. The dead bones (which not surprisingly are "bis-cooked" because they are cooked twice) are ready to be tasted.
The right idea
According to tradition, these biscuits must have a very hard texture (similar to bones), which is why they are cooked twice and eaten hard and crunchy. Those who do not particularly like the hard biscuit can avoid the second cooking: in this way you will be able to obtain a biscuit in the shape of a bone, but still soft.Alice's comment - PersonalCooker
If, on the dark night of Halloween, children come knocking on your door asking "trick or treat?" do not be caught unprepared and offer them these dead bones, who knows if the following year they will still have the courage to present themselves in front of you!
I also recommend the Halloween cake and pumpkin-shaped cookies!Nutritional values and Health Comment on the recipe
Halloween Cookies - Ossa di Morto - are sweet foods with a not negligible energy contribution but objectively lower than the average of products belonging to the same category.The calories of Halloween cookies derive mainly from carbohydrates (complex and simple); the proteins are not many but the lipids are in greater quantity (saturated prevalence). Cholesterol is relevant. Halloween Cookies - Bones of Dead - are foods to be consumed with extreme caution in the case of a diet for hypercholesterolemia and a diet against diabetes; in the low-calorie diet they can also be included in daily consumption, but the portions must be adequate. The medium portion of Halloween Cookies - Bones of Dead - is about 35g (100kcal).
