Maritozzi
Ingredients
for 15 pieces
100 g | white flour |
1 tsp | sugar |
1 tsp | dry yeast |
1 dl | water |
420 g | white flour |
1 ½ tsp | salt |
100 g | sugar |
1 tsp | dry yeast |
¼ tsp | bourbon vanilla powder |
1 ½ dl | milk |
1 | egg |
1 tbsp | liquid honey |
1 | organic lemon, use a little grated zest |
1 | organic orange, use a little grated zest |
¾ dl | olive oil |
1 | egg yolk |
½ dl | water |
1 tbsp | sugar |
4 ½ dl | cream, beaten until stiff |
icing sugar, to dust |
How it's done
Starter dough
Mix flour, sugar and yeast in a bowl, add water, mix with a wooden spoon. Cover and leave to rise at room temperature for approx. 1 hr.
Dough
Mix the flour, salt, sugar, yeast and vanilla in the food processor bowl. Add the milk and egg and knead briefly using the dough hook on the food processor. Add the starter dough, honey, lemon and orange zest and oil, continue to knead for approx. 10 mins. Cover and leave to rise at room temperature for approx. 5 hrs. until doubled in size.
To make the base
Divide the dough into 15 portions, shape into balls, place on two baking trays lined with baking paper, cover and leave to rise at room temperature for approx. 2 hrs. Brush the pieces of dough with egg yolk.
To bake
Approx. 25 mins. in an oven preheated to 160 °C (convection). Remove from the oven, leave the rolls to cool on a rack.
Syrup
Bring the water and sugar to the boil in a small pan, boil for approx. 3 mins. until bubbling, leave to cool. Brush the bread rolls with the syrup.
Filling
Cut the rolls lengthwise and open them. Transfer the cream into a piping bag with a smooth nozzle (approx. 14 mm Ø), fill the rolls with cream, smooth out, dust with icing sugar.
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