Discover the homemade recipe for graffe without potatoes, Tiziana’s personal version. Soft, sugary, and fragrant—perfect for breakfast or a special snack. Download the PDF!
The Doughnuts of Happiness
Soft, fragrant, sugary. Graffe are a dessert that instantly puts you in a good mood, with the scent of home, slow breakfasts, and Sunday mornings.
Tiziana’s version is a personal recipe, without potatoes in the dough, but with all the flavor and softness of traditional graffe.
Easy to make, perfect to fry on the spot and enjoy while still warm. A real treat.
A Simple and Always Soft Version
Unlike the classic Neapolitan versions that require boiled potatoes, these graffe are lighter and made with a simple, well-kneaded leavened dough.
Ideal to make even without a stand mixer—you just need your hands, a little patience, and the right oil for frying.
🧾 Ingredients:
- 500 g all-purpose flour
- 35 g sugar
- 50 g butter, cut into pieces
- 2 eggs
- 150 ml lukewarm water
- 13 g fresh brewer’s yeast
- 1 sachet vanilla powder
- A pinch of salt
- Granulated sugar, as needed (for coating)
- Sunflower seed oil (for frying)
👩🍳 Method:
- Dissolve the yeast in lukewarm water.
- In a bowl, combine flour, sugar, vanilla, salt, eggs, softened butter, and the water with yeast.
- Knead until you get a smooth and well-strung dough.
- Cover with a cloth and let rise for about 2 hours, until doubled in size.
- Roll the dough to about 1 cm thick and cut out doughnuts with a pastry cutter.
- Place them on a floured tea towel and let them rise for another 1 hour.
- Fry a few graffe at a time in hot oil, turning them on both sides.
- Drain on paper towels and immediately roll in granulated sugar.
- Serve warm—they’re irresistible!
Breakfast at the Farmhouse? There’s the Scent of Graffe
At Cascina Facelli, we make them on special occasions or serve them during weekend breakfasts as a warm little treat, coated in sugar and accompanied by a steaming coffee or cappuccino.
They’re one of those desserts that make you feel at home, wherever you are.
📥 Download the Recipe in PDF
📩 Want to try them too?
👉 Download the free PDF of the Potato-Free Graffe
Perfect for slow breakfasts, snacks with friends, or simply to treat yourself.
Tiziana’s graffe may not be the ones from the fair…
But they’re the ones you remember, dream of, and love every time you taste one.
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