Chocolate Bomboloni

Serves 1
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Directions

  1. 1Mix flour, sugar, salt, and yeast in a bowl.
  2. 2Add eggs, warm milk, and melted butter.
  3. 3Knead until elastic by hand or in mixer. Cover and let rise for 1 hour.
  4. 4Punch down the dough.
  5. 5Divide the dough into 65g portions.
  6. 6Roll each piece into a smooth ball and place onto individual squares of baking paper.
  7. 7Arrange on a tray, cover loosely, and let rise for another hour.
  8. 8Heat milk and vanilla until steaming.
  9. 9In a bowl, whisk cocoa, eggs, yolks, sugar, cornstarch, and salt.
  10. 10Slowly add the hot milk while whisking constantly, then return to pan and cook until thick and bubbling.
  11. 11Off heat, stir in chocolate and butter. Chill with plastic wrap touching the surface.
  12. 12Fry donuts in hot oil until golden.
  13. 13Drain and roll in sugar.
  14. 14Transfer the chilled chocolate pastry cream to a piping bag fitted with a round nozzle.
  15. 15Poke a small hole in the side of each donut and pipe in the filling generously.

Ingredients

  • 300 g strong white bread flour
  • 30 g caster sugar
  • 0.5 tsp salt
  • 7 g fast-action yeast
  • 2 eggs
  • 75 ml warm milk
  • 50 g melted butter
  • 540 g whole milk
  • 2 tsp vanilla extract
  • 18 g cocoa powder
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 egg yolks
  • 100 g brown sugar
  • 25 g cornstarch
  • 0.25 tsp sea salt
  • 170 g milk chocolate, chopped
  • 30 g butter

Equipment

bowlmixerbaking papertraypanpiping baground nozzle