DISH RESEARCH · Dessert
Figolli
Also known as: Figolla
Maltese almond-filled Easter pastries with coloured icing and chocolate egg.
About Figolli
Kimberly Magri describes traditional Maltese figolli as Easter shortcrust pastries with almond-paste filling. This profile follows her stated traditional coloured-icing and chocolate-egg finish, keeping it separate from her modern miniature white-chocolate decoration.
Butter enriches the lemon-and-vanilla pastry, with almonds and sugar providing the filling’s sweet nutty character. Almond extract remains optional, and milk joins the pastry layers.
The crumbly pastry encloses a firm almond centre in the traditional shaped form. Coloured icing covers the surface, with a small chocolate egg at the centre as described by the author.
Allergens in this recipe
Contains: Wheat (gluten), Milk, Egg, Almond.
Other allergen details are unconfirmed.
Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.
Ingredients in Figolli
Kimberly Magri’s traditional almond figolli with icing and chocolate egg.
- Plain flourBase
- Unsalted butterCooking medium
- Caster sugarSweetener
- Lemon zestAromatic
- Pure vanilla extractAromatic
- Egg yolksBinder
- WaterLiquid
- Pure ground almondsFillingIngredient page not linked
- Egg whitesBinder
- Almond extractAromatic · Optional filling · Optional
- Milk for brushingFinish
- Coloured icingToppingIngredient page not linked
- Small chocolate eggToppingIngredient page not linked
Ingredient details & uncertainties
Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.
- Plain flour: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Wheat (gluten) source-confirmed. Ordinary plain flour; dough and surface dusting consolidated.
- Unsalted butter: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Milk source-confirmed. Author reply118 explicitly identifies unsalted.
- Caster sugar: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Pastry and filling allocations consolidated.
- Lemon zest: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Pure vanilla extract: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Egg yolks: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Egg source-confirmed
- Water: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Pure ground almonds: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Almond source-confirmed
- Egg whites: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Egg source-confirmed
- Almond extract (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Almond unconfirmed. Explicit optional flavour extract; actual almond content/full product formula not supplied.
- Milk for brushing: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Milk source-confirmed. Normal dairy milk selected under milk-of-choice source wording; exact species/formula unknown.
- Coloured icing: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Author’s traditional finish33; complete icing/colour formula and quantity unprovided.
- Small chocolate egg: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Author’s traditional central decoration33; chocolate type/full formula unknown.
Origins & food traditions
Countries
- Malta
- MaltaCatalogue link pending review
Cuisines & regions
- Maltese Cuisine
- Maltese CuisineCatalogue link pending review
AI-generated illustration of one possible presentation. Recipes and ingredients vary; the image does not establish allergen content.