brunn biscotti

December 8th 2018

It's all about making the 7 biscuits in Norway in the lead up to Christmas, using old recipes handed down from generation to generation or finding and experimenting with new ones.

In recent years the Norwegians have fallen in love with Italian food and with them also both being huge coffee drinkers it was obvious that many would also enjoy the Italian biscotti.  This type of biscuit can now often be found as one of the 'new' 7 biscuits of Christmas.  I have shared with you biscotti before, one with dried cranberries and pistachio nuts, a perfect Christmas biscuit, but this year I wanted to please my daughter more as chocolate is her thing.  So what better than chocolate biscotti?


Chocolate Biscotti

Sticky dough, so use floured hands
to form the sausage shapes

You will need:

140g sugar
3 egg
150g plain flour
75g cocoa
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp vanilla extract

75g almonds
50g white chocolate
50g dark chocolate

♥  Whish the eggs and sugar together until it forms a thick creamy texture.

♥  Add in all the dry ingredients and mix carefully.

♥  Add in the whole almonds and roughly chopped chocolate.  Try not to mix the dough too much if possible.

♥  Divide the mixture into two.  It will be very sticky so use flour on your hands and try to make two long half flattened sausages and put them on the lined baking trays.  See photo.

♥  Bake in the oven at 180 Celcius for approximately 20 minutes.

♥  Allow the biscotti to cool for a few minutes and then slice each roll.  Each slice should be about 1cm thick.

♥  Place the slices bake on the lined baking trays and bake in a reduced heat oven of 130 Celsius to dry out the biscotti further.  Biscotti means twice bake.  To allow them to dry completely will take about 30 minutes.

Biscotti has been baked once and
now ready to slice for the second baking

Biscotti are great as they store well
for about 3 weeks in an airtight container.

Biscotti are a perfect accompaniment to coffee, they are quite hard as
they are baked twice and  I must confess to
enjoying dunking them in my coffee.
Shhh... don't tell anyone...

This recipe was one I found on Elin's wonderful Norwegian baking blog, she has so many tips and treats, it is well worth a visit.  Elin's biscotti

♥  You'll find me this weekend sneaking off for secret cups of coffee with the odd biscotti or two  ♥