These Christmas doughnuts are really special. They are a soft pastry filled with cocoa and pistachio paste Christmas is approaching and besides decorating our homes with lights and decorations, we prepare many good things to eat and each of us follows our own culinary traditions. The best traditions are family traditions like these delicious Christmas doughnuts that we enjoy on Christmas morning at breakfast. Their filling is really fantastic rich with chocolate and pistachios and the shortbread never dries out. I recommend you to try them and I am sure you will be won over sindal first bite. Let’s see together what we need to make Christmas doughnuts with chocolate and pistachios.
Ingredients
INGREDIENTS FOR THE SHORTCRUST PASTRY
FOR THE FILLING
FOR THE GLAZE
Tools
NEEDS
Steps
First prepare the shortcrust pastry. In the bowl of the mixer, mix the soft butter with the sugar until it becomes a cream, then add the egg whites and then the yolks, the grated lemon peel and finally the flour. Mix everything together and you will get a dough a little sandy. Remove it from the bowl and work it quickly by hand, cover it with and let it rest 30 minutes in the refrigerator.
PREPARE THE FILLING
Mix the flour, sugar and un-whipped egg whites. In a small saucepan, heat the milk and then add the cocoa, dissolve the lumps well and add the mixture of flour, egg whites and sugar to the milk and cocoa. Put back on the heat and let it thicken until it reaches a spreadable consistency. Remove from heat and allow to cool. Once cold, add the pistachios and candied orange and then add the sponge cake cut into pieces. Mix everything well and with the dough obtained, form a rectangle at least 2 cm high and about 30 cm long. Wrap it in baking paper and let it rest in the refrigerator for about 15 minutes.
Now roll out the shortcrust pastry and form a large rectangle, make strips and cut the shortcrust pastry lengthwise about 4 cm high. With the filling, form long strips as big as those of the shortcrust pastry and place the strip of filling in the center of each strip of shortcrust pastry, close it well by rolling it up, cut out many pieces and then close them forming donuts, making sure to close the edges well. Place all the doughnuts in the oven dish lined with baking paper. Bake the doughnuts at 1q80 degrees for about 20 minutes but always adjust with your oven. Meanwhile prepare the glaze. Mix the egg whites with the powdered sugar and once the doughnuts are cooked, glaze them ripassatele a few seconds in the oven and then let them cool.
Varied doses for servings