Nonna Rosetta Rauseo’s Chestnut Cream–Filled Cookies

Pastatelle

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Preparation info
  • Yield: About

    72

    cookies
    • Difficulty

      Easy

    • Ready in

      2 hr 30

Appears in
Cooking with Nonna: A Year of Italian Holidays

By Rossella Rago

Published 2018

  • About

Nonna Rosetta looks forward to Christmas every year so she can make her favorite chestnut cream–filled pastatelle. Across the region of Campania, traditional sweets that resemble ravioli are made with a puree of chestnuts or chickpeas mixed with chocolate and stuffed into a lightly sweet dough that is fried until golden brown. Nonna Rosetta prepares these in her kitchen in the most traditional way she was taught back in Aquilonia. When I first asked