Historically, it was the gift that friends exchanged on Easter morning.
Ingredients:
- 450 g flour,
- 300 g butter,
- 150 g sugar,
- 1 egg,
- the grated peel of a lemon,
- a little bag of baking powder,
- 6 hard-boiled eggs with shell,
- milk, if necessary.
Preparation:
- Put the flour and baking powder in a bowl; then add the soft butter in small pieces, the sugar, the egg and the grated lemon rind and knead everything to get a homogeneous mixture. If it is too hard, you can add a few tablespoons of milk at room temperature.
- Pull the dough to a thickness of about 2 cm and get six doughnuts. Place a hard-boiled egg in the center of each little ring shaped cake and form strips with the rest of the dough to place over the eggs to create the design of a basket.
- Place the cavagnetti well spread on a greased baking sheet and bake in a preheated oven at 160 ° C for about 20 minutes.
- At the end of the cooking process, remove the cavagnetti from the oven and sprinkle with granulated sugar or colored sugar dragees.
- If you want to color the hard-boiled eggs, add a few drops of food coloring to the cooking water.