Carnival Sweets: 3 Ideas with Superfoods

THE Carnival sweets They are one of the delights of the month of February: traditional, delicious, often rich in flavour and calories, they are a temptation that is difficult to give up!

There is nothing wrong with treating yourself to a fried or cream-filled treat every now and then. If you want to try creating some Slightly healthier or more plant-based versions of typical Carnival sweets , let's try to give you some ideas.

3 revisited recipes for Carnival sweets

The addition of our superfood to preparations can make recipes richer in terms of micronutrients. Baking, instead of immersing in boiling oil, can help make your treats more digestible, without losing taste.

Coconut Oil Frappe

What are they called in your area? These crunchy delights have a thousand regional names: frappe in Lazio, chiacchiere in various regions of the South, meraviglie in Sicily, bugie in Liguria and Piedmont, crostoli in Friuli, galani in Veneto…

It is said that they were born as street food , distributed to the crowd during the Saturnalia, ancient Roman festivals.

If you want to prepare a truly fragrant and original version, our advice is to replace the butter with coconut oil .

Ingredients

• 200g Flour
• 30g coconut oil
• 1 egg (can be omitted for a vegan version)
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• lemon zest
• pinch of salt
• 1 teaspoon baking soda

Simply mix all the ingredients together and then cut the resulting dough into long, jagged strips, which you can then bake in the oven or air fryer for a lighter effect.

And of course, sprinkled generously with icing sugar before serving!

Apple fritters with rosehip jam

Even the Carnival fritters They take different names depending on the area and the process used to obtain them. Bignole, castagnole, zeppole, fritoe…

The ingredients are very simple: butter or coconut oil, flour, eggs, milk, lemon zest, to obtain a rich batter , to be fried by spoonfuls in boiling oil or to be puffed up in the oven for a light result.

If you want, you can add diced apples, raisins or dried fruit to the mixture, to make them even more nutritious!

Or, if you have a real sweet tooth, you can make a stuffed version: once cooked, they should be stuffed either by cutting them in half or with a pastry syringe, with custard, jams and much more.

The perfect pairing? Sweet apple fritters served with a pleasantly tart jam like rosehip jam : we leave you the recipe here.

“Coriander” Cookies with Matcha Tea and Other Superfoods

What's more cheerful than lots of colorful cookies to nibble on?

Just add about 2 teaspoons of Matcha Culinary Powder to your patented and traditional shortcrust pastry recipe, also in a vegan version, and then go wild with the decorations: contrasting white chocolate chips, or colored sprinkles, sugar sprinkles...

Or use different vegetable powders to color the cookie dough in many different shades: pink-purple with açai , brown with cocoa , almost blue with the spirulina . This way, you will create incredible coriander cookies !

We leave you our secrets for Matcha shortcrust pastry . The extra idea is, of course, to give the biscuits a shape that recalls the period: Carnival masks, for example!