At the word “Carnival”, do you also immediately think of streamers and confetti? Even in the kitchen, the atmosphere is tinged with color and filled with joy! Let's put our hands in the dough and transform the shortcrust pastry into the symbols of the carnival.
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Identity Card of the Recipe
- 324 KCal Calories per serving
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Ingrediants
- 150 g of white flour of type 00
- Q.b. of blue dye
- Q.b. of red dye
- Q.b. of green dye
- 1 pinch of salt
- 3 g of baking powder
- 25 ml of aniseed liqueur or orange liqueur
- 25 g of butter
- 60 g (1 medium) of eggs
- 40 g of sugar
- 40 g of frumina
- Optional: 1 tablespoon of powdered sugar
Materials Needed
- Cones for cannons
- Baking paper
- Sieve
- Scale weighs food
- Bowl
- Wooden spoon
- Rolling pin
- Transparent film
- Pasta cutter wheel
- Round stencil
Preparation
- Prepare the shortcrust pastry base. In a bowl, sift the white flour together with the wheat starch, then add the sugar, baking powder, an egg, a pinch of salt, butter at room temperature and 2 tablespoons of liqueur to taste. it is too compact, add a little milk.
The non-alcoholic alternative
As an alternative to liqueur, you can use flavors of your choice such as vanilla essence, lemon peel, etc.- Divide the dough into 3 or 4 pieces: dye each piece with some dyes fed to taste (eg green, blue, red).
- Knead with your hands to distribute the dye evenly.
- Wrap the pastry in plastic wrap and let it rest in the fridge for half an hour.
- Sprinkle the work surface with a thin layer of flour, then roll out the dough with a rolling pin to obtain a thickness of a few millimeters.
- With a pasta cutter, cut strips a little less than half a centimeter wide.
- Grease some steel cones (the molds used to prepare cannoncini) with melted butter and sprinkle the surface with flour. Alternatively, brush the cones with a release agent for pans.
The alternative to cones
Those who do not have cones for cannoncini can use cylinders made by rolling the baking paper and fixing it with a stapler. The strips of dough must then be rolled onto the cylinder obtained.- Wrap each strip of shortcrust pastry along the cone, taking care not to overlap the edges: the goal is to create a curl of shortcrust pastry. Together with streamers, confetti can be made by cutting the shortcrust scraps with a small, round pastry cutter.
- Proceed in this way with the other pieces of pastry.
- Preheat the oven to 180 ° C (static) and bake the first streamers for 10-12 minutes, being careful not to cook them for too long.
- Remove from the oven, allow to cool and remove the streamers from the molds. Repeat the procedure with the other pastry to get more streamers.
- Serve and sprinkle with powdered sugar to taste.
Alice's comment - PersonalCooker
Baking, surely, makes these sweet streamers less sinful. If, on the other hand, you love gluttony, try frying your creations and serve them during a carnival-style party!Nutritional values and Health Comment on the recipe
Shortbread Streamers and Confetti are foods that belong to the group of sweets.
They have a significant energy intake, mainly provided by carbohydrates, followed by lipids and finally proteins.
Carbohydrates are mainly complex, saturated fatty acids and peptides of medium biological value.
Fibers are present in medium quantities and cholesterol is significant.
Shortbread Streamers and Confetti are not suitable foods for the diet of overweight subjects and those suffering from metabolic pathologies (hyperglycemia, type 2 diabetes mellitus, hypertriglyceridemia and hypercholesterolemia).
They contain gluten and must be excluded from the nutritional scheme for this kind of intolerance.
They also contain small amounts of lactose and can annoy those who are more sensitive to this disaccharide.
They are relevant to the lacto ovo vegetarian philosophy but not to the vegan one.
The average portion as a snack is 30 g (about 95 kcal).
