Italian Easter Egg Cookies with Eggs
User Reviews
4.9
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Servings
10 cuddures
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Cuisine
Italian
Italian Easter Egg Cookies with Eggs
Description
The dough is made by mixing flour, sugar, baking powder, lemon and orange zest, with butter or lard and eggs, kneading until soft and non-sticky for easy shaping. Portions of dough are rolled into sticks, braided, formed into a circle, and each encases a hard-boiled egg placed in the center. Additional strips are laid over the top in a cross pattern to hold the egg securely. The cookies are adorned with colorful sprinkles before baking.
The resulting cookies display a golden crust with a tender crumb, combining the subtle citrus aroma and rich dough surrounding a softly set boiled egg. This tradition is tied to Easter celebrations, symbolizing rebirth and festivity, and the cookies can be served as a snack or part of an Easter meal.
Ingredients
- 1 kg 00 flour or all-purpose flour
- 300 g butter or lard
- 350 g sugar
- 5 egg
- lemon zest
- orange zest
- 2 packets baking powder about 32 g
- salt a pinch
- 10 egg hard-boiled
- Sprinkles colored
Instructions
- Boil the 10 eggs and let them cool.
- In a large bowl put the flour, sugar, baking powder, and grated zest of one medium lemon.
- Add the lard and 5 uncooked eggs and knead the ingredients with your hands. When it’s well mixed, transfer the dough to a work surface or pastry board and knead again until the mixture becomes homogeneous. The dough shouldn’t be hard, but quite soft and not sticky.
- Take 1/6 of the dough and cover the remaining dough to prevent it drying out.
- Divide the 1/6 into 3 parts and roll them to form sticks, thicker than 1 cm and all the same length.
- At one end, lock the sticks, form a braid, and then lock the other end.
- Transfer it gently onto the oven pan and pull the two ends together to form a circle. Take one boiled egg and place it in the center. Press gently to fix it in place.
- Take a small portion of dough, form a stick, and divide it into two equal pieces. Put the new formed sticks over the egg forming a cross, and press the ends of the sticks down gently so they adhere to the braid.
- Repeat the process with the remaining dough, then brush them all with egg yolk and decorate with colored sprinkles.
- Preheat the oven to 390°F and bake them for about 20-25 minutes. Cool before serving.
Notes
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