Bignè di San Giuseppe recipe | Gourmet Traveller

Ingredients

• 100 gm butter, coarsely chopped
• 150 gm plain flour (1 cup)
• 4 eggs, at room temperature
• 20 gm roasted flaked almonds, to serve (¼ cup)
• To serve: pure icing sugar
• Crema pasticcera
• 6 egg yolks
• 150 gm caster sugar
• 40 gm plain flour
• 750 ml milk (3 cups)
• Scraped seeds of 1 vanilla bean
• Finely grated rind of ½ lemon