Kitchen appliances and utensils:
- oven;
- deep bowl for dough;
- sieve;
- a wooden spoon or a small spatula;
- mixer or kitchen machine;
- board for rolling dough;
- a baking sheet;
- baking paper;
- a well-sharpened knife for slicing bread.
Ingredients
| Product | amount |
| Flour | 280-290 g |
| Baking powder | 6 g |
| Salt | 4 g |
| Eggs | 3 pieces |
| Fine Sugar | 185 g |
| Peeled almonds | 120-150 g |
| Dried cranberries | 85-100 g |
| Orange or any other extract | 1 tsp |
Step cooking
- Flour and baking powder in the amount of 280 and 6 g, respectively, are combined and sieved with a sieve. If the dough turns out to be liquid, then the flour can be added a little more. Add 4 g of salt and mix thoroughly with a wooden spoon or spatula.
- Using a mixer or food processor, beat 3 eggs, 185 g medium sugar and 1 tsp at maximum speed. extract. The latter is taken at their own discretion, it can be orange, almond, lavender, etc.
- They reduce the whipping speed to a minimum and dry components smoothly add. Beat until smooth.
- Pre-clean 120-150 g of almonds from the husk and add to the resulting dough.
- At the same time, 85-100 g of dried cranberries are poured. With the filling, you can also experiment and replace cranberries with dried cherries or other berries to taste.
- Mix the dough thoroughly using a spatula.
- A wooden board and hands are abundantly sprinkled with flour so that the dough does not stick much. They lay the dough on the board and quickly with the help of hands form a sausage, regularly sprinkling it with flour.
- The finished bar is laid out on baking paper located on a baking sheet. Pre-sprinkle paper well with flour.
- We put the dough in the oven, which is preheated to 150 degrees. The duration of the preparation is from 50 minutes to an hour.
- The browned and hardened bar is removed from the oven and allowed to cool for about 10 minutes. At this time, the temperature in the oven is reduced to 135 degrees.
- We cut the resulting loaf with a sharp knife for bread into slices of 1 centimeter. Do not thaw the loaf for more than 10 minutes, because it will become hard and when chopped it will begin to crumble, because of which beautiful pieces of cookies will not work.
- Sliced pieces are again placed on a baking sheet and put in the oven at 135 degrees for 10-15 minutes.
- Cookies are served for tea or coffee. Such Italian biscuits go well with dessert wine.
Video recipe
The video focuses on how to cook Italian biscotti cookies correctly and quickly at home. The proportions of all necessary ingredients and the order of their addition during preparation are indicated. Some secrets are also revealed, thanks to which you can diversify cookies, and how to store it correctly so that it remains as tasty as after cooking.
Biscotti cookies are prepared quickly and easily, so every housewife will be able to make it at home. Have you tried to cook a similar dessert and what recipe? Are you satisfied with the result? What berries and other filling did you use? Share your experience and new ideas for making biscotti cookies in the comments.
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