le castagnole di carnevale

Typical fried sweets in the period of carnival, the Italian Castagnole are made of a dough, then fried and made rolled on caster sugar. For the very greedies they are often stuffed with cream, ricotta or chocolate. Here is the recipe. 

carnival fried sweeties (castagnole)

Here is the video recipe I presented on TG5 Gusto 

I found out this recipe with a little variation in the ingredients, the ricotta cheese.

Ingredients for 6 persons                                

• 250 g flour 00
• 75 g cottage cheese (ricotta)
• 35 g butter
• 200 g caster sugar
• 7.5 g baking powder
• 100 g of eggs (2 eggs)
• 2.5 g of salt
• oil for frying
• powdered sugar for garnish