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Margherite o Canestrelli

Course Breakfast, Dessert
Cuisine Italian
Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Servings 40 biscuits
Author Giulia Mairo

Ingredients

  • 300 gr flour
  • 200 gr starch
  • 300 gr butter
  • 150 gr icing sugar
  • 6 firm yolks
  • Lemon zest
  • Vanilla

Instructions

  • Combine flour and starch
  • Whip butter and icing sugar
  • Add the crushed and strained hard-boiled egg yolks and add lemon zest and vanilla.
  • Sift the flours into the mixture.
  • Roll out and create the shape of the basket with a pastry cutter and place them on a coated plate.
  • Bake at 150 ° C for 8/10 minutes.
    (it is important that they do not darken during cooking, rather lower the oven and extend the cooking time)
  • Cool and sprinkle with icing sugar.