ingredients

280gr very fine yellow flour, 280gr butter, 200gr white flour, 160gr caster sugar, 4 eggs, a sachet of vanillin.

making it

Mix together the two types of flour, sugar and the vanillin.

This mixture should be further mixed with 4 egg yolks and the butter, then worked to form a decent dough in the shape of a ball.

Allow the ball to rest for 30 mins wrapped inside grease proof paper.

Next, divide the dough into two pieces. Pull into a sausage shape, the place inside a piping bag with a star shaped nozzle.

Lightly flour and butter an oven tray and artfully create 10cm long 'canelli' or 'sticks'.

Even more artfully, when all the dough has been used up, form the 'canelli' into half moon shapes 'appena accennata'.