Easy Italian Dessert Recipe: Ciambelline al Vino

I am not sure if ciambelline al vino can be classifed as an Italian dessert as it’s perfect for anytime of the day. Last Christmas, some friends gave us some ciambelline al vino and as it was the holiday season I indulged on them.

Recently, I decided to see if I can make some ciambelline al vino and was surprised to see how shockingly easy it is to make them. It’s so easy that it doesn’t make sense to pay so much for them.

The recipe I used to make the ciambelline al vino is adapted from Forchettina.it.  To not get carried away, I halved the recipe and it turned out the same.  If you want to make more, just double this recipe.

Italian Dessert Recipe: Ciambelline al Vino

Ingredients
400 gram of flour
150 grams of sugar
100ml of wine (you can use either white or red wine)
100 ml of sunflower seed oil (you can also use olive oil but it has a stronger flavor)
Half a packed of vanilla essense (if using liquid vanilla essense 1-2 drops would work)
1 tsp of baking powder
A pinch of salt
Extra sugar for dipping

Instructions

1. Preheat oven 180C

2. Make a well with the flour and all the ingredients except the extra sugar.

3. Slowly incorporate all the ingredients until you get ball of dough.

4. In a shallow dish, pour the extra sugar which you will use to dip the ciambelline.

5. Then take a piece of dough and roll them out into thin ropes.  I am not a precise cook so the length of each rope varied.

6. Join the ends of the rolled out dough.

7. Dipped in sugar before placing them on a lined baking sheet.

8.  Place them on a baking sheet lined with baking paper.

9.  Cook at 180C for 15 minutes until lightly golden.

As you can see, it requires minimal ingredients and not much work.  Confession:  I didn’t really enjoy rolling out each piece of dough to thin ropes.  Towards the end, as my patience was wearing thin, my ropes got thicker but it didn’t hurt the taste at all.

Hope you try out this easy Italian dessert recipe not only because they are easy to make but they are also delicious!