Maritozzi

Moritozzi are delicious pastries that you can find all throughout the bakeries in Rome. It’s a sweet bun filled with whipped cream and topped with powdered sugar. It’s the perfect compliment to an espresso!

Yield: 8-9 buns

Ingredients

Dough:

500 gram 00 flour

250 ml of milk

5g levito di birra or yeast

70 gr sugar

70g olive oil

1 egg

pinch of salt

zest of 1 orange

Whipped cream:

1 pint heavy cream

1/2 cup powdered sugar

1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

Directions

Start by heating your milk and then add your yeast into the milk and mix to dissolve. (Note: be careful to not let your milk get too hot or it will kill the yeast and your dough won’t rise)

In a mixing bowl, add the 00 flour, milk with yeast, egg, sugar, oil and orange zest

Mix until you have a nice smooth dough that is slightly sticky

Move your dough to a flat work surface and knead it a bit to continue to smooth it out

Roll it into a ball and add it to an oiled boil and cover. Let it sit for about 2 hours for the dough to rise

After it has risen, remove it from the bowl and return it to your work surface

Begin to cut it into about 100g pieces and then roll each piece into a ball

Place all of the buns on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper and cover. Allow them to rise for another hour

Uncover and brush the buns with an egg wash

Bake at 350F for 20-25 minutes or until they are a nice golden brown color

While they bake you can make the whipped cream! In a stand mixer, add heavy cream, powdered sugar and vanilla and let it whisk on medium speed until it forms stiff peaks

You can refrigerate the cream until the buns cool

Once done, place the buns on a wire rack to cool

Once cooled, cut the buns down the middle and fill with the whipped cream, make sure to make it nice and even and clean off any cream on the bun

Dust with powdered sugar and enjoy!

You can see a video here for how I filled my maritozzi!

Note: if you want your buns to have a nice shine to them, add a teaspoon so sugar to a teaspoon of warm water to dissolve it and then brush it on the buns because you cut and fill them!