Panettone is the classic Italian Christmas sweet bread we all know and love, but making it at home isn't such an easy task! That's why I came up with a simplified version of it: Mini Italian Panettone!
Making proper Panettone takes almost two days of work from very skilled bakers: it needs to raise for about 12 hours and any little detail that goes unnoticed could spoil the whole thing. Of course, mine it's not the same as a Panettone bought from the bakery, but because in Australia the only option would be to buy an overpriced factory-produced Panettone, I thought it's still better to make my own... it may not be perfect, but it's made with love and good ingredients :-)
I'm sure they are going to be very popular on my Christmas Dessert Buffet, together with the very quick and easy Zabajone Cream, and a nice fruit platter.
Ingredients
550 gr plain flour, sieved
250 ml full fat milk, warm
35 gr butter, room temperature
40 gr honey
80 gr sugar + 1 full teaspoon for the yeast
200 gr sultanas or chocolate chips, coated in a thin layer of flour to avoid sinking in the dough
25 gr yeast
Steps
1. Prepare the yeast: put it in a small bowl, add a bit of the warm milk and a full teaspoon of sugar to feed the yeast. It will promptly start making foamy bubbles once it activates.
2. Mix honey and sugar with the rest of the warm milk
3. Make the dough: add the yeast milk, the milk with honey and sugar, the butter and the sultanas to the flour.
4. Knead for at least 15 minutes until your dough is smooth, firm and elastic.
5. Let it rise for at least 90 minutes in a bowl covered with clear foil. Rising must always happen where there is no air flow.
6. Knead some more: another 5 to 10 minutes will do. Shape it into a balland let it rest for 10 minutes.
7. Divide the dough into 8 smaller balls of about 130 gr each. You place them in a muffin trey, or use paper cupcake liners.
8. Your mini panettoni will need to rise for another 45 minutes, better if in a dark room with no air flow.
9. Bake at 200º for 20 minutes. Then bring the temperature down to 180º and bake for another 20 to 25 minutes.
10. Decorate as you like: you can sprinkle icing sugar or make proper icing, you can coat in melted chocolate or do whatever you like!
Match it with
Moscato d'Asti, it's traditional companion and a great dessert wine ;-)
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