Thursday, February 3, 2011

Gingerbread Biscotti

‘Biscotti’ means ‘twice baked’ in Italian. Here is a really simple and delicious biscotti recipe.
Ingredients
1/3 cup - Vegetable oil
1 cup - Sugar
3 - Eggs
2 1/4th cups - All-purpose flour (I neglected this completely and used whole wheat flour only)
1 cup - Whole wheat flour 
1 tbsp - Baking powder 
1 ½ tbsps - Ground ginger 
3/4 tbsp - Ground cinnamon
1/2 tbsp - Ground cloves
1/4 tsp - Ground nutmeg
Melted chocolate for drizzling (optional)
Method
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Grease a cookie sheet. In a large bowl, mix together oil, sugar, eggs, and molasses. In another bowl, combine flours, baking powder, ginger, cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg; mix into egg mixture to form stiff dough. Divide the dough in half and shape each half into a roll the length of the cookie. Place rolls on cookie sheet, and pat down to flatten the dough to 1/2 inch thickness.
Bake in a preheated oven for 25 minutes. Remove from oven, and set aside to cool.
When cool enough to touch, cut into 1/2 inch thick diagonal slices. Place the sliced biscotti on the cookie sheet and bake for an additional 5 - 7 minutes on each side, or until toasted and crispy. Once the cookies have cooled, drizzle with melted chocolate and enjoy these crispy twice baked cookies with a hot cup of coffee...or tea!!

    4 comments:

    1. That's a lovely bake,yum yum!!
      will try this some time..

      Erivum Puliyum

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    2. Thank Julie. Do try it, it was really delicious.

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    3. These biscotties looks wonderful...Will surely try it sometime...

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    4. Thanks Neha, you will surely love them.

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