Befana brooms are an easy and delicious dessert to make for Epiphany, and you can even make them with the help of your children. To prepare the Befana brooms, it will only take a few minutes. If you have trouble finding stick cookies, you can replace them with a skewer, which is still thick, and you can cut it to the desired size. If you want to make a larger dessert instead of single portions like in this case, try the SWEET BEFANA BROOM. I recommend checking out the EPIPHANY MENU and other EPIPHANY DESSERTS; you’ll surely find some other recipes to try. In Veneto, on Epiphany day and when bonfires are made, it’s customary to eat PINZA and drink mulled wine. Now, let’s see how to make Befana brooms, and if you try them, let me know. Barbara

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Difficulty: Very Easy
Cost: Very Cheap
Preparation time: 15 Minutes
Portions: 6
Cooking methods: Oven
Cuisine: Italian
Seasonality: Christmas

Ingredients to prepare the Befana brooms

1 roll puff pastry (rectangular)
3.5 oz Nutella®
6 stick cookies
as needed melted butter

How to prepare the Befana brooms

Let’s start preparing the Befana brooms. Unroll the puff pastry, keep the shorter side facing you, and spread Nutella over half of the puff pastry.
Fold the puff pastry and overlap it.
Cut it to obtain 6 rectangles.
Then take each rectangle and cut it into strips, preserving the whole part.
Place the stick on one side.
and roll it.
When you have completed all the brooms, place them on the baking tray with parchment paper and spread the strips randomly to give the brooms a natural look.
Brush with melted butter and bake in a preheated static oven at 350°F for 20 minutes.
When the Befana brooms are ready, remove them from the oven and let them cool before serving.