Dolci Ripieni ( Italian )

Total Time: 55 mins Preparation Time: 40 mins Cook Time: 15 mins

Ingredients

• 6 cups all-purpose flour
• 6 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 6 large eggs
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup milk
• 1/2 cup canola oil
• 1/2 lemon, juice of
• 2 1/2 cups peach jam (or your favourite filling...) or 2 1/2 cups apricot jam (or your favourite filling...) or 2 1/2 cups chocolate (or your favourite filling...) or 2 1/2 cups nuts (or your favourite filling...) or 2 1/2 cups figs (or your favourite filling...)

Recipe

• 1 in a bowl sift the flour, powder and salt.
• 2 in another bowl mix, eggs with sugar and beat until light fluffy.
• 3 now add the milk, oil, lemon juice,and combine well.
• 4 add the dry ingredients slowly to the wet ingredients,and mix with your hands until a ball of dough is formed.
• 5 adding more milk, only if it seems too dry.
• 6 this will be a sticky and heavy dough.
• 7 knead on floured surface until smooth.
• 8 cover and rest 25 minutes.
• 9 preheat oven 350 degrees.
• 10 lightly grease your cookie sheet.
• 11 divide the dough into 4 pieces and roll each one at a time into a 16 x 14 rectangle.
• 12 using a pastry cutter cut into four strips about 3 1/2 inches and then again across by 2 inches.
• 13 place a teaspoons.
• 14 of filling of choice centre of rectangle and then fold over, pinch closed and seal.
• 15 place on baking sheet and bake 15 minutes to 20 minutes or until a light golden.
• 16 remove and place on rack to cool.
• 17 this also can be rolled up like a jelly roll and then sliced into 1/4 inch rounds.
• 18 or can be a bottom layer cookie sheet, spread filling, and then a second layer, and cut into squares-- the filling can be chocolate and nuts, jams, nutella, cooked fruit fillings--.