To prepare the recipe for the nun’s breasts, small sweets from Altamura, you must, as I understand it, use the flour called AFRICAN MIX which I bought online on Amazon.
The package of African Mix that I used weighs 450 grams, but I didn’t feel like making too many sweets (who would eat them) and made half the dose with 5 eggs and 225 grams of this flour mix.
The African mix is used to prepare the nun’s breasts, the africanetti, and to make ladyfingers, and there were enough for the whole neighborhood!!
With the other part of the AFRICAN MIX, I will try to make africanetti
(if I find a recipe with the African Mix) which are bars that literally melt in your mouth, sweets that I know VERY well!
In my previous life as a married woman, we used to eat africanetti when we went with friends to a tavern in San Giovanni in Persiceto, and after gorging on tigelle, cold cuts, and excellent wines, the father of the then-owner would bring us these amazing sweets! I WISH I COULD GO BACK….
The nun’s breasts are very soft, fluffy sweets that must be filled because the mix is very delicate and we need to make it sublime with a cream that can be Chantilly, pastry cream, or whatever you prefer!
The nun’s breasts are made with this mix of powders that contains gluten, starch, powdered sugar, yeast, vanilla, and stabilizers to maintain extreme softness as a result.
To make the nun’s breasts , I deliberately did not use muffin cups to place the dough dropped from the piping bag, and indeed some heaps of pseudo-breasts are crooked, and we also have an intruder … the little bird
the little dove of the nuns!
I like working like this, just experimenting: I don’t have a pastry shop; my blog is what you can also do at home with successes and with bizarre things that come out of the oven, and I don’t intend to change, by now I’m old!
Anyway, you use the muffin mold or the cups if you want to get a straight and pointed sweet!
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- Difficulty: Medium
- Cost: Medium
- Rest time: 30 Minutes
- Preparation time: 10 Minutes
- Portions: 18 Pieces
- Cooking methods: Oven
- Cuisine: Italian Regional
- Region: Puglia
- Seasonality: All Seasons
INGREDIENTS
- 5 eggs (medium)
- 225 g flour (AFRICAN MIX for nun's breasts, ladyfingers, africanetti)
- as needed powdered sugar (for decoration)
- as needed whipping cream, 35% fat content (or pastry cream or … something sweet of your choice)
TOOLS
- Baking trays
- Parchment paper
- Piping bags
- Mixers
FOR THE PREPARATION OF THE RECIPE NUN’S BREASTS
quite simple, just put the eggs and the ready-made AFRICAN MIX and beat with the whisks for 5 minutes at maximum speed… and the mixture you see below will come out!
The oven is preheated to 356°F, and I insert this soft but dense mass into the piping bag without a nozzle; at least that’s how I did it!
I then cut the tip at about 1 cm, actually a little more, and made these spikes on parchment paper without greasing or anything as we find it in the package!
I bake and wait about 15 minutes … I confess I set it to 338°F because the oven is new, the recipe is new, and I wanted to understand well and check the cooking.
After about 10 minutes, the nun’s breasts were just coloring, and I raised it to 356°F to have them well browned; I waited another 7/8 minutes, so … pay attention!
Once cooked, and I recommend opening one to check, I let them cool completely… I left the tray in the oven with the door half open, but you do as you prefer!
In the meantime, I whipped the cream, took a long, narrow nozzle, and filled the cold breasts and then tasted them…
Enjoy the special nun’s breasts from Puglia, actually from Altamura!
Annalisa
P.S. In some blogs, I read that you need to use only one type of African mix, but I didn’t use the one they suggest, and it seems to me that the result is not bad!
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