Recipe & food styling Ali Irvine

Serving size: Serves 10 or more
Cuisine type: Italian
Cooking time: More than 1 hour
Course: Dessert
Favourite flavours: Chocolate

Real Living Easter recipe for cinnamon bombolini (Italian doughnuts).

INGREDIENTS

1 sachet instant dried yeast (7g)
¾ cup warm milk
¼ cup caster sugar
2 cups plain flour, plus extra to dust
Pinch salt
1 egg, whisked lightly
40g butter, melted
2 litres vegetable oil, for deep frying
4 tbsp amaretto
⅔ cup cream
120g dark chocolate (about 50% cocoa solids), chopped finely
½ cup cinnamon sugar

Equipment
Sharp knife
Jug
Whisk
Electric mixer with whisk attachment (see “Tip
Small mixing bowl
Tea towel
3 baking trays
Baking paper
Small saucepan
Large saucepan
Candy thermometer or cube of white bread
Slotted spoon
Paper towel

METHOD

Stir yeast into warm milk, in jug. Place sugar, flour and salt in bowl of electric mixer. Pour in milk and yeast mixture with egg and butter. Beat for 1 to 2 mins until well combined. Cover with tea towel and set aside in a warm place for 1 hour to rise.

Make bombolini Dust 2 lined baking trays lightly with flour, then dust your hands. Roll mixture into tbsp-sized balls, recoating hands with flour between each one. Place onto trays with a space between. Cover with tea towel and leave in a warm place for 30 mins to rise again.

Make sauce Meanwhile, heat amaretto and cream in small saucepan over medium-high heat until just below simmering point. Remove from heat, add chocolate and stir to combine. Warm through on very low heat before serving.

Cook bombolini Heat oil in large saucepan over medium heat to 160°C (when cube of bread turns golden in about 75 secs). Carefully drop bombolini into oil in batches of 12 and cook for 4 mins until golden and cooked through, turning once. Drain lightly on paper towel. Scatter cinnamon sugar on third baking tray and roll bombolini in sugar.

Serve bombolini hot with warm chocolate amaretto sauce. Yum!

Tip If you don’t have an electric mixer you can use a wooden spoon instead. But don’t use hand-held electric beaters as the sticky mixture will creep up the beaters.

These Italian doughnuts are a double-dip delight – spicy cinnamon sugar followed by warm chocolate and amaretto sauce. Bellissimo!