It's struffoli time!

Do you know struffoli ? Are a typical Christmas recipe from Naples. It's no more Christmas time but it's still winter!
Really yummi perfect for adults and kids.

These are small and soft balls of dough made from flour, eggs, sugar, butter and aniseed liqueur; first fried in abundant oil, then caramelized in honey and seasoned with colored sprinkles! Really super delicious you can give them also other forms but people mostly use the circolar form and create them like little balls and decorate them with little piece of fruits or with candies or sugars. A unique goodness that has ancient origins! This recipe it's old and unique and it's now famous in all Italy .

First of all there are many kind of struffoli but the Naples recipe is with the Aniseed liquor but you can use too rum or limoncello .
First of all, start preparing the dough, cook the butter until it is melted and let it cool, weigh the sugar, prepare the liqueur. In a large bowl, where you will then go to work the dough, mix together the flour and yeast, salt and grated orange peel.
Then add the flour, sugar, butter and sssie tweety liqueur in a large mix. Turn with a large ladle until the mixture becomes homogeneous and almost grainy, pierce the center and put three egg insides into it. Mix It all. Work it with the hands until it became a kind of ball of dough. Make with your hands some dough snakes and cut it in 1cm pieces, work this pieces in the form that you prefere. Leave to rest for 30 minute in normal temperature.
Than put them in the hiven,well separated in the
baking tray at 180 for fifteen minutes. Than fry them on the frying pan like one minute or less for every struffolo.
It's a long job but the result it's super yummi. You can see that they are ready when their colot it's like gold , put on them sugar and honey and decorate it with what you want and voila the struffoli are ready super delicious!