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Bomboloni

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Bomboloni

Fluffy deep-fried Italian doughnuts filled with pastry cream and dusted with sugar. Proving the dough twice, once before shaping and once after, gives bomboloni their signature light, airy crumb.

Total time
110 min
Prep
90 min
Cook
20 min
Difficulty
hard
Cuisine
Italian
vegetarian

Ingredients

500gstrong bread flour
7ginstant yeast
80gcaster sugar
3eggs
150mlwarm milk
80gbutter, softened
500mlwhole milk for custard
4egg yolks for custard
100gsugar for custard
40gcornflour
1 tspvanilla
vegetable oilfor frying
icing sugarto dust

Instructions

1

Mix flour, yeast, sugar, eggs, milk and butter into a smooth dough. Knead 10 minutes. Prove 1 hour.

2

Make custard: heat milk, whisk yolks with sugar and cornflour, combine and cook until thick. Cool.

3

Knock back dough, roll 1cm thick. Cut circles. Prove 30 minutes.

4

Deep-fry at 170°C until deep golden both sides. Drain and cool slightly.

5

Fill with custard using a piping bag. Dust with icing sugar.

Nutrition (estimated)

Per serving, based on a standard 4-serving portion and standard nutrition references — not a lab or USDA-verified measurement. Some ingredients in this recipe couldn't be matched to a reference value, so treat this as a rough estimate.

Calories
345
Protein
6.9g
Fat
21.1g
Carbs
32.1g
Fiber
0.6g
Sodium
74mg

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