La Postilla

Calzoncelli

From aunt Anna, aunt Giulia, aunt Rosa and aunt Raffaella’s cookbook

500g of wheat flour, 250g sugar, 150g of lard, three eggs, 250 g of chopped toasted almonds, 250 g of bitter dark chocolate, 250 g of icing sugar.

Chop first separately and then together the almonds with chocolate, mix with icing sugar. Make a short crust pastry with flour, sugar, lard and eggs: Make it smooth and homogeneous without working too much, then let it stand for half an hour in a cool place (refrigerator). Do, with a rolling pin, a fillo dough of about half a centimeter. Place the filling on the dough that you have to cut around with the cog or a little mould and fold in half,fixing the edges so that during cooking the filling does not come out. The calzoncelli are cooked in the oven on a baking sheet greased.