Italian Fig Cookies: Traditional Recipe
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Italian Fig Biscuits Recipe
Exquisite sweet snack of Italian origin, from the region of Sicily. Cassatelles are small pastries that you can fill with different sweet mixtures.
Servings: 8 people
Calories: 240kcal
Ingredients
For the dough:
- 500 grams of 00 flour.
- 500 grams of durum flour.
- 16 grams of yeast.
- 250 grams of lard.
- 300 grams of sugar.
- 250 ml lukewarm water.
- 2 teaspoons vanilla.
For the filling
- 450 grams dried figs.
- 150 grams of sliced almonds.
- 150 grams of sultanas.
- 100 grams of walnuts.
- 100 grams of hazelnuts.
- 50 grams of pine nuts.
- 2 teaspoons of cinnamon powder.
- 3 tablespoons honey.
- 2 teaspoons of powdered cloves.
- 130 ml. marsala or Port wine.
- 2 tangerines.
- 2 oranges.
For garnish:
- 200 grams of icing sugar.
- 1 egg white.
- 15 drops of lemon juice.
- Rain of colours.
Preparación
- Place the flours, sugar, vanilla, yeast, and lard in a bowl. Mix by hand to combine all the ingredients very well.
- Gradually add the warm water and continue mixing.
- Knead just until well blended.
- Wrap in cling film for one hour.
- Grind the figs and nuts in a food processor. Set aside.
- Remove the peel from the mandarins and oranges, discarding the white part of them, pulverise them finely and then mix them with the nuts.
- Add the cinnamon, the powdered cloves and the honey.
- Finally, add the marsala little by little and mix very well.
- Cut the pastry into small cubes, roll it out to a thickness of 0.5 cm.
- Fill with a teaspoonful of the mixture, giving it the shape of an empanada.
- Leave to rest for half an hour.
- Bake for 20 minutes at 180°C.
- Mix the sugar, egg white and lemon juice. Paint and decorate with the rain of colours.
- Bake in a preheated oven for 5 minutes.
Calorías y Nutrición
Serving: 100g | Calories: 240kcal
