Recipe Details

Sfogliatelle

Naples' most iconic pastry — crispy, shell-shaped layers of paper-thin dough filled with a ricotta and semolina cream scented with orange and cinnamon. A labor of love and a masterpiece.

Prep Time

5 hours

Category

Dessert

Ingredients

13

Steps

8

Recipe and Instructions

500 gsemolina flour
180 mlwater
1 tspfine salt
150 glard or shortening, softened
250 mlwhole milk (for filling)
150 gfine semolina (for filling)
300 gfresh ricotta, well drained
200 gcaster sugar
2egg yolks
1orange, zested
1 tspground cinnamon
1/2 cupcandied citron or mixed peel, finely chopped
for dustingpowdered sugar

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