Fake sweet peaches scented with alchermes

INGREDIENTS

For the biscuit:

• 500 g of 00 flour for cakes;
• 180 g granulated sugar;
• 3 whole eggs;
• 150 g softened butter;
• A pinch of salt;
• 1 teaspoon of vanilla baking powder, sifted;
• 2 tablespoons of milk at room temperature;
• The zest of 1 grated lemon

For coverage:

• Alchermes;
• Granulated sugar

For the filling:

• Jam to taste, but you can also fill them with custard, chocolate cream or ricotta cream.

STEP

1. Take a bowl, pour in the flour, add the whole eggs, the soft butter, the sugar, the milk, a pinch of salt, and the sifted yeast:
2. Knead all the ingredients, first with a wooden spoon and then with your hands (if you see that the dough is very soft, add more flour, but not too much);
3. Break off pieces of the dough and form balls the size of a walnut;
4. Place the shortcrust pastry balls on a baking tray covered with baking paper, well spaced apart, and press lightly to flatten the base slightly;
5. Bake at 160 degrees (preheated oven) for 10 minutes in static mode (until golden);
6. Unmold the peaches;
7. While still warm, delicately hollow out the center of the biscuits;
8. Let it cool;
9. After that, fill the biscuits with the filling you want, I chose apricot jam:
10. Pour the alchermes into a small plate and the granulated sugar into a second plate;
11. Quickly dip the biscuits first in the liqueur and then in the granulated sugar;
12. If you want, prepare some leaves with green sugar paste and place them on the fake peaches, they will look real… too beautiful!!