Get ready for Christmas!!!!

My favourite sweet bake ever is the "CROSTATA"!
I prepare it with different flavours but this time, as Christmas is very close by,
I have decided to fill it in with marmelade (a nice bitter orange jam made with Sevilla oranges)
and dark chocolate.
Perfect ingredients to warm up our Christmas table!
I have just prepared one to offer as a Christmas present to some dear friends and i'm going to share my recepe with you all!

Have a sweet Christmas!!!!

ORANGE AND DARK CHOCOLATE CROSTATA

Ingr. for pastry: 300 g flour
100 g white sugar
130 g butter
1 egg
juice of half big orange
grated orange zest

Ingr. for filling: 1 jar of Sevilla oranges marmelade
1/2 cup dark chocolate chips

Prepare the pastry forming, on a wooden base, a sort of vulcano with the flour.
Break the egg in the center of the vulcano mouth, add sugar and start mixing the two ingredients with a little flour.
Put cold butter in microwave for 40 seconds (I know, i know! Microwave is not good for you but only for 40 secs sooooo convenient!) to make it soft then add to the mixture into the vulcano mouth and start mixing all the ingredients together with your hands (what a good feeling!) till the dough is smooth.
Transfer dough in a small bowl, cover with the left-over butter paper and let it rest for 10 minutes in the fridge (again.....I know, I know! They say for 30 min. but i don't like to wait and the result is the same!).
Wash your hands, swicth on the oven to 375 degrees in America or 200 in Europe, make a nice cup of tea and go back to the fridge to pick up dough.
Flour the wooden board and with a rolling-pin press on the dough with a gentle rolling movement till obtaining a very thin pastry.
Butter a round baking tray and transfer dough on it.
Cut the overboarding pastry with a dented rolling cutter and cover with marmelade and chocolate.
Use the left-over dough to make thin stripes to dispose on top of the jam forming a grill shape.
Bake at 350 (or 200) for 25 minutes, then high up the heat to 400 (or 250) for 5 minutes, till the top is brown.

"Ecco fatto!" the crostata is ready!

It's advisable to share with friends while sipping champagne or having a nice coffee!

BUONE FESTE!