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Duffin: sweets for the weekend breakfast – Italian Cuisine

A cross between a donut and a muffin. Do you know them?

There is something more beautiful than doing family breakfast in the weekend? Wake up calmly all together, gather around a table for drink coffee and cappuccino and eating something good for many is almost a weekend ritual.

If you want to amaze yours with something good and original, but also easy and quick to prepare, the right recipe could be the one Duffin.

Don't you know them? They are treats halfway between a donut it's a muffin, because they remind the flavor of fried donuts, but they are made in the oven. Duffins can be filled, for example, with cocoa cream and hazelnuts or jam to make them even more delicious.

How to make duffins

Ingredients

For about 30 duffins you need: 100 g sugar, 1 egg, 100 g butter, 140 g flour 0, 2 teaspoons of baking powder, 80 g white yogurt, lemon peel and granulated sugar, cocoa and hazelnut cream or jam to taste.

Method

The preparation of duffins is very simple. To begin mix in a large container – with a hand whisk – the sugar and butter, then add the eggs and continue to turn vigorously to obtain a homogeneous mixture.

Then add the yogurt, flour and baking powder and lemon peel and continue mixing with the whisk. The dough must be very soft.

Turn on the oven at 180 ° and butter, flour the molds and with the help of a spoon pour the mixture into each. Let them cook for about 15 minutes.

While the treats are in the oven, heat the cream a little in a saucepan to melt it and pour it into a piping bag to better dose it into the duffins. If instead you want to use jam you can use a spoon to fill the duffins, being careful, however, not to ruin them.

Remove the desserts from the oven and fill them by making a small hole in the lower part and pass them in the granulated sugar – when they are still hot – before serving them.

The duffins are kept for a few days so you can increase the doses and prepare a sufficient amount for the week, hardly any will remain!

Christmas breakfast – Italian cuisine – Italian Cuisine

From traditional panettone left over from Eve, to light and refreshing fruit salads, passing through proposals that smell like cinnamon: here are eleven suggestions for the morning of December 25th

There breakfast on December 25th it is a difficult meal, wedged between the Luculian New Year's Eve dinner and the King's lunch which will be on the table a few hours later. To unwrap the presents, however, you need energy, at least as much as it takes to endure the horde of relatives and the long bingo games with the family in the afternoon. With ours 11 ideas – both light and incredibly tasty – for Christmas breakfast you will have no difficulty facing the hardships of this festive day.

Diet I'm not afraid of you: 5 delicious ideas

At Christmas every dessert is worth. Perhaps this was not exactly the saying, but if, rightly, during the holidays you are not going to worry about the line, you are spoiled for choice. The great classics of the Christmas breakfast are the leftovers from the dinner (yes, there are also those who appreciate savory ones), panettone and pandoro.
If you need an extra dose of sweetness to bend over to your mother-in-law, the panforte it's what you need. The children – even those who are only inside – will appreciate the Christmas breakfast i holiday cookies, such as gingerbread cookies for example, with the hot chocolate.

The delicious and light Christmas breakfast in 3 proposals

Apparently there are also those who, in view of the lavish lunch, prefer keep light or it is still shattered by the dinner on December 24th. Also in this case, the suggestions for making a nice Christmas breakfast, perhaps with the whole family and between a gift and the other, are not lacking.
Often on the festive tables there is thepineapple, served as a meal after a while because it is exotic and refined, a little because it is considered digestive and detoxifying. If there are a few slices left, eat it in fruit salad with almonds, another inevitable food at Christmas. An alternative for a fruit breakfast is one tangerine fruit salad – citrus symbol of the holidays – e walnuts or, third suggestion that will especially appeal to children, is based on Kiwi: peel them, cut them in half and then into slices, arranging them on a triangular-shaped plate, mimic the stylized shape of the Christmas tree. Decorate with some raspberries or currants to simulate the decorations and you will get a fruit salad that you can't do more Christmas.

3 ideas for a first meal that smells like Christmas

If Christmas were a perfume, it would be the spicy one of cinnamon. Unthinkable, then, not to suggest any ideas to ensure that the Christmas atmosphere has spread in the air since the morning of December 25th. Milk, yogurt, a ripe banana, a drop of honey, a pinch of ginger and lots of cinnamon are the ingredients to prepare one smoothie dense and greedy, to be drunk alone or combined with another of our proposals.
Another themed breakfast is the christmas granola paired with yogurt, worked with honey and cinnamon or a fast mini strudel: simple puff pastry stuffed with diced apples, pine nuts, raisins and cinnamon, closed to form a bundle and then baked in the oven. The ice cream, with which the typical South Tyrolean dessert is often served, is not much for breakfast, but ricotta sweetened with honey and whipped with whips definitely yes.

Lactose-free breakfast: what to eat? – Italian Cuisine

From the soy milk cappuccino to the fruit salads up to the normal sponge cake, there are many possibilities for a tasty breakfast and free lactose

When it turns out to be lactose intolerant one of the first thoughts runs to breakfast: milk, cappuccino, yogurt, but also biscuits and brioche, rich in butter … do you have to give up everything? The answer is no. For a delicious breakfast without lactose, you only need to change some habits and some ingredients.

Products delattosati, at home and at the bar

Just a trip to the supermarket to realize that lactose-free products are really many: biscuits, cakes, cupcakes, but also (and above all) milk, butter, cream, yogurt, ricotta. Almost all dairy products are now also produced in the lactose free version. Perfect base for a good breakfast, from cappuccino to home-made desserts: delattosato butter and milk replace the “normal” ones in any preparation, in the same doses and in the same way. Many bars, then, have access to lactose-free milk to prepare cappuccino and macchiato coffees suitable for the intolerant. But not everyone can tolerate these products. For some, even the few traces of lactose left represent a serious problem. Therefore the substitution must be more radical, and it is necessary to opt for plant milks.

Soy, rice, almond & co.

Soy milk is certainly the most common, but you can also try rice, almond, coconut … each with a different flavor and characteristics. In particular, soy milk and almond milk are also suitable for the preparation of a cappuccino without lactose: heated and worked with a milk frother (or with an immersion blender), they give life to a thick and delicious froth. All can be mixed with fruit to make fresh smoothies. And everyone can replace milk in the preparation of sweets "for breakfast", like the classic ciambellone: if the taste of a single type of milk can become too intense, they can be mixed together to give greater balance to the taste, perhaps with the adding a touch of vanilla or cinnamon if desired. Those who have breakfast at the bar, then, will be able to find soy cappuccino in many places, and often also vegan croissants, obviously also without milk and derivatives. Not only milk, but also butter can be replaced: an excellent bread, butter and jam can be prepared with perfumed coconut butter, or with the cocoa butter. The latter, in particular, is perfect for preparing desserts, above all buttery pastry, simply replacing it with classic butter.

Lactose-free breakfast: biscuits in oil

Still, the butter can be replaced with lOil, olive or rice. An idea for delicious biscuits: 200 g of flour, 80 g of extra virgin olive oil or rice oil, an egg, 70 g of icing sugar: it is mixed, preferably with the mixer, adding a pinch of salt, a pinch of baking powder and the grated rind of half a lemon, the dough is distributed with a pastry bag to form heaps on a plate lined with parchment paper. Refrigerate for half an hour and then cook at 160 ° C for about 20 minutes. Once cold they can be decorated with marmalade at leisure or with dark chocolate (obviously without lactose) dissolved in a water bath.

Breakfast-no-lactose

Naturally lactose free

There are also preparations that do not require the use of milk and dairy products. Starting from fruit salads and fruit salads, to the many egg-based preparations, excellent for one breakfast without lactose salt: an omelette with ham or a soft-boiled egg certainly does not contain milk, as well as a fried egg (strictly fried in oil) with a slice of crispy bacon. But even some unsuspected desserts are completely safe, especially if prepared at home. The Sponge cake for example it does not require either milk or butter: to prepare it, mount 4 eggs with 150 g of sugar and a pinch of salt, working with the electric whisk for about 15 minutes, in order to obtain a light and foamy mass; add 150 g of sifted flour a little at a time, pour the dough into a mold lined with baking paper and bake at 180 ° for 25 minutes. At this base can be combined cocoa, chocolate, coffee, vanilla or other aromas to taste. And then go ahead with a jams, jams is compound, to spread perhaps even on sponge cake or on a slice of toasted bread.

Fast sweets can be prepared starting from bread dough: cut it into disks, fill it generously with jam (or with a mix of sautéed apples, pine nuts, sugar and raisins), close them in a half-moon and bake them in the oven. Another quick, delicious and completely lactose-free idea is i banana pancakes: mash two bananas with a fork, place the puree in a bowl and season with the juice and the rind of half a lemon; add a lightly beaten egg, 50 g of flour, a teaspoon of yeast and a pinch of salt. Pour a ladle of the mixture into a hot non-stick pan and cook it, turning it once, like a normal pancake. Enjoy them hot, with maple syrup or honey, but also with fresh fruit or jam.