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Well, Christmas is coming. I wish All My Readers A Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
At this special moment I wish to share my favourite and delightful pastry recipe of both Italian and French cuisine. It’s a Almond Biscotti that perfect designed to be dipped into your best-loved cup of coffee.
Other Italian name of this biscotti is Cantucci. They are hard, high-baked lozenge-shaped biscuits. When moistened, they become deliciously soft and crumbly. In Tuscany, they are usually studded with almonds or other nuts and flavoured with vanilla or aniseed.
Cooking these biscotties I used the Bar method. Finally I got diagonally cut almond biscotti compare to round biscuit shape ones.
If you wish to make a very special salad to your festive Christmas table please see the Fruit Salsa recipe from my French Cooking Blog.
Ingredients:
150 g eggs (2 or 3 depends on weight)
275 g white sugar
1 tablespoon salt
1 tablespoon vanilla power
3/4 tablespoon grated orange zest
425 g plain flour
1o g baking power
150g blanched whole almonds
Method:
Mixing:
Combine the eggs, sugar and salt. Stir over hot water to warm the mixture (a sponge method). Whip until thick and light.
Fold the vanilla and orange zest.
Sift together the flour and baking power. Fold in the egg mixture.
Mix in the almonds.
Makeup:
Shape the dough into log about 6cm thick. Dust your hands and the workbench with flour. The dough will be soft, sticky, and difficult to handle, but the log do not have to be perfectly shaped.
Baking:
Bake at 160C(325F) about 30-40 minutes , until light golden.
Finishing:
Let cool slightly. Slice diagonally about 12mm thick. Place slices cut side down on sheet pans. Bake at 135C(275F) until toasted and golden brown, about 30 minutes.
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They look delicious.
Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Very Happy New Year.
LL
When I went to Napoli, I tried two desserts: Baba and ‘Svoyatella’. I don’t know how to spell the latter one. I’ve been looking for a recipe for a long time. I can’t find anything close to it. It has ricotta in it and it is almost like a pie. Would you by some chance know of this dessert?
home made biscotti
I am looking for a really nice almond flavored biscotti recipe. I am not looling for a new spin on an old recipe, but an hoping that someone might have a mom, grandmother biscotti recipe that has passed the test of time, but one that wont break my fillings. Pls help me. Thanks!