Zeppole

Italy

Also known as Zeppole di San Giuseppe, Sfinge

About Zeppole

Zeppole are Italian pastries made from choux dough, fried or baked, filled or topped with pastry cream and decorated with an amarena cherry and powdered sugar.

They are traditionally eaten on 19 March, the Feast of Saint Joseph (Father's Day in Italy). They are especially popular in Naples and Rome.

There are also simple fried dough zeppole dusted with sugar, sold at Italian-American street festivals.

Ingredients

• flour
• eggs
• butter
• sugar
• pastry cream
• amarena cherries