How to Make Nanny's Recipe for Struffoli - Italian Honey Balls

This is Nanny's recipe for delicious homemade Struffoli, Enjoy! - Hedy
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Recipe: How to Make Struffoli
3 cups flour
3 tablespoons Crisco
3 teaspoons baking powder
½ cup of sugar
½ tsp. salt
1 tsp. vanilla
4 eggs
3-pound jar of honey
Colored sprinkles
Oil for frying
In a food processor, pulse together flour, sugar, salt, and baking powder. Add the Crisco and pulse. Add the eggs and vanilla and pulse until the mixture forms a ball. Wrap the dough in plastic wrap and chill for about 30 minutes. Cut up the dough into 4-6 pieces and roll into ¼ inch strips. Cut each strip of dough into half-inch pieces. Roll each piece into mini-sized round balls.
Use a 4-quart heavy-bottomed saucepan placed over medium-high heat, heat the oil to 330 degrees. Check the temperature with a candy thermometer. It is important to maintain the temperature, so you may need to adjust the heat or remove the pan from the burner to keep the heat at 330 degrees. If the oil is too cool, the Struffoli will absorb too much oil before they finish frying. They should be a light golden brown.
When you are finished frying, place them in a large container with a paper towel to drain the oil and cool. Heat about two cups of honey in a saucepan, place Struffoli in a pan and cover with honey. Pour into a decorative bowl and shake on colored sprinkles. You can separate the dough into two balls and cut it into four equal parts. Makes about 6 to 8 dozen depending on the size of the balls.
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[@rdibiasi100]

Thank you for the memories My grandmother and mother always went by eye and never wrote recipe down Yours are so close to there's I now make every year

[@joelginadavis2895]

merry christmas!

[@NannysItalianKitchen]

joel ginadavis Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.🎅🏻

[@GohAhweh]

I'm going to try these this week! Beautiful work Hedy!!

[@elizabethshaw734]

I love these!

[@kitchenlady948]

Great videos!! Keep them coming! 👍🏼👍🏼

[@Rob_430]

Great video. My Mother and Grandmother from Avellino made Strufoli. Farberware pots, we have the whole set too. Married 51 years here.

[@colleenhocking1734]

love the videos! im Irish lol

[@Cathakinz]

Dear Hedy, Graze A mile for this wonderful recipe and video. I am also Neapolitan and Sicilian. My grandmother would make this every Christmas and I would help when I was little. Unfortunately she passed away this year and I wanted to remake her Christmas sweets for our family. This video gave me the comfort and guidance for a successful batch, Thank you!

[@NannysItalianKitchen]

You have no idea how happy that makes me. Enjoy! Merry Christmas.

[@butterfly197305]

Had a good time watching your video, thank you for sharing family recipes. Excellent character and fun narrator. I love Italian ethnic and Italian food, I was raised around Italians, Greeks and Czech people.. 💕💕💕

[@miasmom4601]

Really enjoy your videos Hedy! You remind me soo much of my mom and aunts. They, like yourself, are all wonderful Italian cooks. Happy healthy Christmas and New Years to you and your family!

[@NannysItalianKitchen]

Mia's Mom Merry Christmas to you and your family.

[@franmorrone8403]

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[@BarbaraLynn175]

Hi I grew up with these too. My cousin came over today and we made them. It’s such a great Italian tradition we look forward to every Christmas. Our recipes are very similar. Merry Christmas !!

[@charleneslawson9447]

Love your videos, have your cookbook, and love seeing your grandkids in the videos. Merry Christmas.

[@viciporcelli5616]

I love you! All of my Italian family have passed. I love your little Italian phrases, I still use them too, but no one understands me. Struffola has always been my favorite, but no one made it. They bought it at Cammareri’s bakery in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. Thank you for sharing and Merry Christmas 🎄🎁!

[@jessicaanne4477]

I lived in New York as a child and I remember eating these at my grandmother's. I could never remember what these were called much less how to make them. Thank you so much for making this video!

[@NannysItalianKitchen]

I'm glad I could bring back some fond memories. Too bad we lose some of the recipes with each generation. I made these videos with the intention of giving them to my children, but then I got requests so I made this channel. Enjoy!

[@KAstrength]

Love this and cannot wait to see the wine cookie recipe. Merry Christmas!

[@mariesurace2787]

Love your videos! Brings back memories ! Will be looking for the wine cookie video havent had them in years! Merry "Christmas!

[@lisabafundo4355]

Very Nice! I make them too..your right, the younger generation don't appreciate them...id love to see you make your Easter pie...ive made it a few times.😁

[@TheBakingDiva]

Hi....I grew up with these.....Always on the table for the holidays. Being Italian they were a staple but my adult kids don’t like them 🤔 So sad......Merry Christmas, Hugs, Dolores 🎄☃️🎅🏻😊😘

[@susanmarino8026]

They look delicious, hope you make the wine cookies. Thank you

[@barbaracossentino2313]

Merry Christmas Hedy. I was so excited to see your post just now. The Struffoli look delicious. I have never heard of them before. Wine cookies sound very interesting.

[@valmac3887]

Nothing says the holidays like Struffoli - from one Italian to another = ) Merry Christmas!

[@NannysItalianKitchen]

Very true. Merry Christmas.

[@elizabethshaw734]

What processor do you have? I need to buy a new one for the holidays this year and I have researched until my eyes are crossed and I have a migraine! I want one like yours.

[@NannysItalianKitchen]

I have a Cuisinart 14 cup processor.

[@josephinemiceli7911]

Make the wine cookies

[@NannysItalianKitchen]

I already did. kzbin.info/www/bejne/lWa8lYaJabupn5I

[@nf2885]

You should use that spoon that you pulled them out with to put them in the oil to fry. Then you wouldn’t burn your hands. Looks delicious.

[@NannysItalianKitchen]

N F I do...watch the wine cookie video.

[@nf2885]

Buon Natale🎄🙋🏻🇺🇸🇮🇹

[@lisabafundo4355]

as I said I make them very similar to yours, but you know, my mother's struf. were hollow inside, very airy..I don't know how she made them that way..possibly she used yeast in her dough..I wish I had her recipe 😊

[@NannysItalianKitchen]

Try more baking powder.

[@lisabafundo4355]

@@NannysItalianKitchen oh!! Ok that makes sense..I'll try that thank you and have a wonderful Christmas 😊

[@arthurtaranto3330]

Great job Hedy but where’s the Tim Duncan jersey?

[@elizabethshaw734]

My mother refused to bait unless it came from a box mix! So by 8 years old I was baking and then by 10: I was making full meals and baking.

[@johannapaciullo8659]

I don’t roll them. I cut and fry them

[@johannapaciullo8659]

She didn’t put sugar in the honey which is why the honey isn’t sticky enough to be able to pile the struffoli into a pyramid.

[@lorainecisneros4560]

I just made this and 4 eggs is not enough for the 3 cups of flour. I had to add 2 more eggs.

[@NannysItalianKitchen]

Loraine Cisneros It’s always been enough when I make them. Did you use large eggs? If the dough needs a little more moisture you could add a little water.

[@itsjohndell]

Hey, my earlier comment seems to have vanished, but thanks for the heart!

[@NannysItalianKitchen]

itsjohndell Because I lowered the volume of the background music. Someone complained it was distracting. So I had to upload it again and the comments are on the old version.

[@itsjohndell]

Understood. Just to give you a laugh I'm down to two fishes for Xmas eve since i'm cooking for one. Baked Shrimp and Bay Scallop Scampi over Risotto Milanese, I will be posting the recipe over the weekend. But Woot.com had a special the other day, an entire Parma Ham Procsiutto of 10 pounds for $80. It arrives Thursday. My dried out salt dessicated corpse will be discovered sometime shortly after Christmas. Boun Natale e tutti Famigle , @@NannysItalianKitchen