Biscotti Cioccolato Recipes

Steps:

• Cream together the eggs with a pinch of sugar until frothy using an electric mixer.
• Spoon in the sugar little by little to make a pale yellow batter.
• Sift together flour, cocoa and baking powder; fold carefully into the egg mixture.
• Fold in nuts and chocolate.
• Chill for about 20 minutes.
• Flour hands and divide the dough into two.
• Form into logs in the length of an oven tray.
• Bake for 5 minutes in a 175°C (350°F) oven.
• Lower the temperature to 150°C (300°F) and bake for 15 minutes.
• Cut into pieces about ½-inch.
• Dry them in the oven for 15 minutes.
• When cool, store in an airtight tin.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees
• Butter and flour a large baking sheet.
• In a bowl, whisk together flour, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt.
• In another bowl with an electric mixer beat together the butter and granulated sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs and beat until mixed well. Stir in flour mixture to form a stiff dough. Stir in walnuts and chocolate chips.
• On the prepared baking sheet with floured hands, form dough into two slightly flattened logs, each 12 inches long and 2 inches wide, and sprinkle with confectioners' sugar. Bake logs for 35 minutes, or until slightly firm to the touch. Cool biscotti on the baking sheet for 5 minutes.
• On a cutting board, cut biscotti diagonally into 3/4 inch slices.
• Arrange biscotti, cut sides down, on baking sheet and bake until crisp, about 10 minutes.
• Cool biscotti on a rack. Keep the biscotti in air-tight containers for 1 week and, frozen, 1 month. Yields 30 biscotti.

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Toast the almonds in a shallow pan for about 12 minutes. Set aside to cool.
• Adjust two racks to divide the oven into thirds and adjust the oven to 300 degrees. Line two cookie sheets with parchment paper or with aluminum foil, shiny side up, and set aside.
• Sift together the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, salt and espresso or coffee powder. Set aside.
• On a cutting surface, with a heavy knife, shred the chocolate fine. Place the shredded chocolate in the bowl of a food processor fitted with a metal chopping blade. Add about a half-cup of the sifted dry ingredients and process for 20 to 30 seconds, until the chocolate is very fine.
• In the large bowl of an electric mixer, beat the eggs, vanilla and almond extract, if using, just to mix. On low speed, add the processed chocolate mixture, the remaining sifted dry ingredients and the sugar. Beat to mix. It will be a stiff mixture.
• Remove the bowl from the mixer and stir in the almonds.
• Turn the dough out onto a floured surface. Form it into a mound. Cut it in half. Flour each half, and with your hands, form them into sausage shapes about 12 inches long. Place each sausage shape diagonally on a lined cookie sheet. Straighten the shapes and brush off any excess flour.
• Bake two sheets at a time for 50 minutes, reversing the sheets top to bottom and front to back once during baking to insure even baking.
• Remove the sheets from the oven. Let cool for about 10 minutes.
• Then transfer the baked strips to a cutting board. With a serrated bread knife, carefully cut the strips on a sharp angle into cookies about a half-inch wide. (At this stage the cookies are fragile.)
• Carefully place the cookies, on the cut side, on the cookie sheets and bake again at 300 degrees for about 40 minutes, turning them upside down after 15 or 20 minutes, until the cookies are completely dry and crisp.
• Turn off the heat, open the oven door and let them cool in the oven. tore them in airtight containers.

Steps:

• In a medium bowl, whisk the flour, baking powder, and salt.
• In a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat the butter and sugar on medium speed until light and fluffy, 2 to 3 minutes.
• Add the eggs one at a time, mixing on medium speed after each addition until incorporated.
• Mix in the vanilla and then the coconut until well combined.
• With the mixer on low speed, gradually add the flour mixture and mix just until combined.
• The dough will be sticky.
• With the mixer still on low, mix in the chocolate chips (and almonds, if using) .
• Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
• Position a rack in the center of the oven and heat the oven to 350°F.
• Line a large cookie sheet with parchment.
• Divide the dough into equal halves and place on the cookie sheet.
• Working on the sheet, shape each half into a loaf about 10 inches long, 3 inches wide, and 3/4 inch high.
• Bake until the tops are browned, cracked, and crusty, and spring back slightly when gently pressed, 30 to 35 minutes.
• Cool about 30 minutes on the cookie sheet.
• Reduce the oven temperature to 325°F.
• Transfer each loaf to a cutting board and with a sharp serrated bread knife, cut 1/2-inch slices crosswise on the diagonal.
• When slicing, hold the sides of the loaf near each cut to keep the slices neat.
• Put the slices cut side down on the cookie sheet and bake until the biscotti are dried and the cut surfaces are lightly browned, 15 to 20 minutes. Transfer the cookie sheet to a rack and let the biscotti cool completely. The biscotti may give slightly when pressed but will harden as they cool.

Steps:

• Place nuts in a shallow pan and bake in a preheated 350 degree oven for 5 to 10 minutes, or until golden brown (do not overcook). Let cool.
• In a mixing bowl, cream butter and 1/2 cup sugar until light and fluffy.
• Beat in egg yolks, vanilla and orange zest.
• In a bowl combine the flour, baking powder and salt. Add to the creamed mixture, mixing just until crumbly.
• In a separate bowl, beat egg whites until stiff soft peaks form and beat in remaining sugar, beating until stiff but not dry.
• Fold meringue into the crumbly dough, mixing until it clings together.
• Cut nuts into halves or thirds and fold in along with chocolate.
• Divide dough in half. Form into two logs on a greased and floured baking sheet making them about 1/2 inch thick, 1 1/2 inches wide and 16 inches long, sppacing them at least 2 inches apart.
• Bake in the middle of a preheated 325 degree F oven for 25 minutes or until set and golden brown.
• Transfer from the baking sheet to a rack. Let cool 5 minutes. Place on a cutting board. With a serrated knife, slice diagonally at a 45 degree angle about 1/2 inch thick.
• Place the slices upright on a baking sheet and return to the oven at 300 degrees for 10 to 15 minutes to dry slightly. Let cool on a rack. Store in a tightly covered container. Makes about 4 dozen biscotti.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 300°F Line a large baking sheet with parchment paper (waxed paper will not work, it will smoke.).
• In a food processor fitted with the metal blade, combine the chocolate and sugar and grind until the chocolate is very fine. Set aside.
• In a bowl, sift together the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt. Set aside.
• In a mixing bowl combine the eggs and the vanilla. Beat at medium speed to blend.
• Reduce the speed to low, add the chocolate and flour mixtures and mix until a stiff dough forms, adding the walnuts when about half mixed.
• Transfer the dough to a floured surface and gather it together. Divide in half. Form each half into a log 12 inches long. (Give the logs plenty of space on both sides as the width of the logs doubles during baking.).
• Carefully transfer the logs to the prepared baking sheet, spacing them evenly.
• Pat to even up the shapes. Bake until almost firm to the touch, about 50 minutes. (I have found that 40 minutes was sufficient).
• Let cool for 10 minutes. (Do not let it cool for longer as the logs will become brittle and more difficult to slice without breaking.).
• Leave the oven set at 300°F.
• Using a spatula, transfer the logs to a work surface. Using a serrated knife, cut on the diagonal into slices 1/2 to 3/4 inch thick. Return the slices cut side down to the baking sheet.
• Bake for 25 minutes. (I baked mine 15 minutes and the biscotti were very crispy).
• Turn the slices over and bake until crispy and dry, about 25 minutes longer. (Again, I found 15 minutes to be good).
• Transfer the cookies to wire racks to cool.
• Store in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 1 month.