Recipe for Italian sugar cookies "Torcetti"

Italian pastries are famous all over the world. And many of its famous sweets can be easily cooked in the home kitchen.

For example, airy and crispy Torchetti cookies.

These sugar pretzels appeared in the XVIII century, and Italians still serve them for breakfast with hot fragrant cappuccino.

Italian Cookies Ingredients

500g flour
280 ml of warm water
15-20g yeast
2-3 tbsp of sugar
1 tsp salt
200g butter
1 tbsp sugar for sprinkling

Preparation

Solve yeast, sugar and salt in 5 spoons of warm water.
Ask for flour, make a depression in the middle and pour dissolved yeast into it.
Add the rest of the water and mixes a soft elastic dough.
Roll the dough into a ball, cover it with film and let it rise for an hour.
Then put on a flour-sprinkled table and messes for 10 minutes along with a soft butter. Put the dough in a bowl and leave it for another hour.
Form from the dough thin sausages thick in the finger. Divide them into 10 cm pieces.

By the way, thin sausages from dough you will need to prepare another Italian dessert - "Struffoli".
Plug their ends into a pretzel shape. Get in the sugar.
Put the cookies on a parchment-covered pan and send for 15-20 minutes into the oven, heated to 200 degrees.