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5 very easy Carnival recipes for children – Italian Cuisine

Carnival is a party especially for children. Here are 5 colorful and fun recipes for them

There is no party in the world more fun than the Carnival for a child.

What do I dress up with mom?
Confetti or streamers?
DIY mask or real disguise?

What matters, however, in a party with many children is also and above all the snack.

Here's how to amaze them with some ricolorful and fun cetta and very easy to make, for mothers who do not have much time or are not very skilled in the kitchen.
And if you combine some mess it does not matter. Anything goes at carnival time!

Funfetti cake

This is a classic breakfast cake enriched with colored sugars inside. Beautiful to serve in a snack under 10. We prepare it with the recipe of the classic cake 7 jars. Mix 3 eggs with 2 sugar jars with a hand whisk and then add a jar of seed oil and three jars of sifted flour with a sachet of baking powder. Add at the end three spoons of colored codette in the mixture and mix. Fill a cake tin lined with baking paper and bake at 180 degrees for 35 minutes. If you want, decorate with an icing of butter and powdered sugar.

Cocoa Puffs

This balls usually disappear within a few seconds. Just mix the ricotta, with the sugar and the mascarpone with the coconut flour until you reach a consistency that you can work with your hands. The ingredients are 250 gr of ricotta, 250 gr of mascarpone, 100 gr of sugar and around 200 gr of coconut flour. Then roll the balls into the colored tails.

Smarties cookies

These cookies are decorated with an ingredient much loved by children: the chocolate colored dragees. Prepare a classic short pastry with 3 eggs, 500 grams of 00 flour, 200 grams of sugar, 1 sachet of baking powder and a small glass of seed oil. Form the cookies and then decorate them with 4-5 confetti each. Cook at 180 degrees for about 10-15 minutes.

Sparklers of tagliatelle

Do not you believe it? You have read just fine. We prepare crispy streamers simply by frying some fresh noodles in boiling seed oil. Then, once they are ready and well drained, we decorate them with plenty of powdered sugar. And if you have time to do it by hand you can also try the chocolate version!

Rainbow cake

This is a very famous cake in the States. It is called this because it is made with the colors of the rainbow. You have to prepare a basic dough like that of the first recipe (cake seven jars) duplicating the doses and then divide it into more bowls. In one add the red color, one in green, one in yellow and one in blue. You can also choose other colors, the important thing is to use natural food colors (you can also prepare them by using ingredients like beetroot, pistachios, blueberries, pumpkin etc). Then cook the different colored compounds separately in small round molds. Once ready, overlap them by placing between each of the whipped cream or cream prepared by adding 100g of soft butter with 150g of margarine,
350 g of powdered sugar and 3 tablespoons of milk. Cut it into slices and you will discover the magic!

At Carnival … the abruzzese cicerchiata – Italian Cuisine

A Carnival cake of the Abruzzo tradition. Easy to do even at home. Here is the recipe of chef Rosanna Di Michele

Just looking at it puts joy. It will be for the decorations of the multicolored chocolate tails that look like confetti. But the cicerchiata, Carnival cake par excellence of the Abruzzo region, is a joy also for the palate.

The chef Rosanna Di Michele

The name derives from the cicerchie, legumes that have their origins in the Middle Ages and recall in the form the fried dough cubes of which the cicerchiata is made. The main ingredient is honey, according to the chef Rosanna Di Michele, Vastese with the suitcase always ready for the States where for some years promotes the typical recipes of his land. "It is a particularly common sweet in the province of Chieti, in the area of Sangro-Aventino that produces and exports honey of the highest quality (famous that of Tornareccio, natural, untreated and rich in vitamins and enzymes ndr)", explains Rosanna, contagious smile which has won many celebrities including Valeria Golino and Pino Daniele during her show cooking in the Big Apple.
«I remember that when I was a little girl, I would make the cicerchiata with my mother an exciting game: cut the dough and shape the balls that had to be all the same, says the chef who prepared this recipe for the Italian Carnival celebrations in New York last year. "It must be underlined that, at first sight, the cicerchiata looks very similar to the Neapolitan struffoli. But it's not like that: the struffoli are bigger and eaten at Christmas and not at Carnevale, "concludes Rosanna, who is currently working on the launch of an Italian restaurant in Harlem, 23 Winehouse.

Here, then, his family recipe of the cicerchiata

Cicerchiata ingredients (for 6 people)

500 g of flour, 5 eggs, 7 tablespoons of sugar, 5 tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil, 450 g of honey, tails of colored chocolate and flakes of almonds to decorate, extra virgin olive oil for frying.

Preparation

Place the flour on a work surface and pour the eggs, sugar (5 tablespoons) and extra virgin olive oil. Start working the dough until it becomes homogeneous. Leave to rest for 30 minutes and then form the thin pastry strings about 1 cm from which to make the cubes. Bring the extra-virgin olive oil to temperature, fry the diced dough, drain and place on the absorbent paper. Take a large pot, pour the sugar (2 tablespoons) and honey. When the mixture becomes fluid, toss the diced and almond flakes and, using a wooden spoon, make small piles of pasta (the hands must be wet) on a flat surface and choose the shape you like best (single-portion or donut ). Finally decorate the cicerchiata with colorful sprinkles.

Text Antonia Matarrese

How to prepare the Carnival Cenci: the recipe – Italian Cuisine

Fried or cooked in the oven, the rags are part of the typical sweets of the Carnival days that are prepared throughout Tuscany. They are crispy sheets that are easy to make even at home, with our suggestions

Crunchy sheets covered with icing sugar: the rags they are among the typical sweets of the Carnival of Tuscan tradition. They are fried in hot oil and then covered with powdered sugar, but for the most attentive to the diet there is also one oven baked version, lighter. The rags are made of eggs, flour and sugar only, without adding wine or liqueurs, as is used instead for the Milanese chatter. Here is our recipe for preparing Carnival rags at home.

The recipe for Carnival rags

Ingredients

300 g flour 00, 60 g butter, 60 g sugar, 2 eggs, salt, 2 g baking powder, lemon peel, oil for frying.

Method

Form a fountain with flour and baking powder and place the butter in small pieces, sugar and eggs inside. Then add the lemon zest, a pinch of salt and start kneading until the mixture is smooth and elastic. Let it stand covered for 30 minutes and then roll out the dough with a rolling pin to make a thin sheet. Fold the dough on itself and flatten it again. With a scalloped cutting wheel obtained of rhombs, drill two central holes and fry the rags in hot oil, preferably peanut, being careful not to put too many in the pan. Remove the rags as soon as they are golden and let them dry on a piece of absorbent paper. Sprinkle with icing sugar and serve.