These stuffed donuts in Little Italy are tricky to make but worth it

Taking their name for the Italian word for "bomb," Farinella's bomboloni are explosively good.

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Cesare Agostini , co-owner of Ottawa’s Farinella eateries, stops himself short before he can cuss about one of favourite pastries. Article content

“They’re really the most pain-in-the …” he says, before pausing. Article content Article content

“They’re the most temperamental thing that we make,” continues Agostini, whose group of casual eateries is renowned in Ottawa’s Little Italy and beyond for its Roman-style pizzas , impeccable gelato and more.

Agostini is expounding about Farinella’s bomboloni — filled doughnuts made from a soft, leavened dough that are fried, tossed in sugar and then filled with a sweet cream or jam.

The typically evocative name for these pastri