Carnival Sweets for Fat Tuesday ~ Castagnole, Italian Fritters | Wandering Educators

Ingredients

• 4 eggs
• 400 gr. or 4 scant cups of flour
• 4 tablespoons olive oil
• 4 tablespoons sugar
• 1/2 glass or 1/4 cup liquor (we use rosolio but anice, cognac or rum can work as well)
• grated zest of a lemon
• 1 packet of "lieveto per dolce" or 1.5 tablespoons of baking powder
• enough fat to fry in - we use strutto (lard) but you can use vegetable oil as well.
• honey
• alkermes liquor