My daughter is giving a presentation on Italy today in school. She and all the other third graders were to research a country and bring a "suitcase" containing items representing that particular country. Maya went above and beyond and she even wants to do a country report this summer, on her own, about Greece. I'm looking forward to that!
She picked out biscotti and we gathered the ingredients to make a gluten and dairy free biscotti for her class.
Maya also wants me to point out that biscotti means twice cooked in Italian.
Ingredients:
2 1/2 cups almond flour
1/2 cup of cocoa powder
2 tsp vanilla
1 tsp almond extract
1 tsp salt
1 cup sugar
8 medium eggs
3 Tbs sunflower or canola oil
1 1/2 cup slivered almonds
1 package chocolate chips (we used the Enjoy Life brand)
Directions:
1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit and place your eggs on the counter.
2. Toast the slivered alonds in a toaster or conventional oven until a light golden color.
3. Combine the almond flour, cocoa powder, sugar and salt in a large bowl and mix. Or you can use a Kitchenaid and mix everything in your bowl.
4. Add the vanilla, almond extract, oil and the eggs and mix well until the batter is smooth.
5. Add the toasted slivered almonds and mix.
6. Pour the dough into your greased pans. I used two 7"x11" cake pans.*
7. Smooth the batter until it is evenly distributed in the pans.
8. Hit the bottom of the pan on the counter to release air bubbles.
9. Bake for 20 minutes and then remove the pans from the oven.
10. Turn the temperature to 300 degrees Fahrenheit.
11. Let the pan cool for 15 minutes.
12. Once cool, flip pan onto a cutting board or even onto your cookie sheet (if you can avoid cutting the sheet during the next step).
13. Slice into 24 even pieces.
14. Turn the biscotti, cut side up onto the cookie sheet and bake at 300 for another 20 minutes.
15. Remove and cool completely.
16. Melt chocolate chips in a small pan. Drizzle chocolate on, or dip biscotti in, the melted chocolate and lay on waxed paper. If you want to cover the biscotti more completely you may need one more bag of chocolate chips.
Enjoy with your favorite cup of tea or coffee!
Makes 24 biscotti
* My biscotti came out very "thin", so perhaps decrease your pan size to create thicker pieces of biscotti.
Photo copyrighted by Artiste Photography
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