The recipe of tasty Gone with the Wind, desserts typical Neapolitan dishes also suitable for concluding the dinner Vigil or Christmas lunch. The origin of their name it is due to them simplicity and lightness, expressly requested by some Neapolitan ladies from the pastry chef who invented them.
Soft and greedy, they are so light and easy to prepare that they go right off with the wind!
definitely suitable to serve during the holidays of this period, both to complete the great Christmas Eve dinner of December 24, and to conclude the Christmas lunch with the family.
How to prepare Gone With the Wind sweets
- Difficulty: average
- Preparation: 15 minutes
- cooking: 15 minutes
- People: 4/6 people
Ingredients for Gone With the Wind
- 150 gr flour
- 250 ml of water
- 100 gr salted butter
- A pinch of sale
- 3 eggs
- 60 gr cup sugar
- 100 gr chocolate fondant
Glaze ingredients
- 30 gr salted butter
- 50 gr cup sugar by bike
How to prepare puff pastry
Put a pan over medium heat in which you put the water, the cup sugar, salted butter and a pinch of sale to warm up. When the butter has melted, add all the flour at once, mix and do cook the flour until it forms a ball of dough which will slowly adhere also to the edges of the saucepan.
Cook for a minute and then, when the compound is still hot, add the eggs one at a time, stirring until incorporated, before adding the next.
At this point ours choux pastry compound is ready to put in the sac à poche, equipped with a star nozzle, to thus form your Gone with the wind on a baking sheet lined with baking paper, spacing them well from each other.
Bake at 170 ° for 15 minutes or so, in a static oven. They will be ready as soon as they turn out golden, but don't take them out of the oven: to ensure that they don't lose theirs swelling turn off the oven and let the cookies cool inside.
How to glaze Gone with the Wind
As soon as the treats are ready, it will not remain is dust them abundantly of cup sugar by bike and, if you want, even glaze them in the chocolate melted and enriched by salted butter (which will make it shiny), dipping the sweets halfway.
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