Preparing biscotti. Biscotti, classic version and recipe from Yulia Vysotskaya

How to make Almond Biscotti

1. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius, prepare a baking tray, grease it.

2. In a large bowl, mix flour and baking powder. In another bowl, beat eggs with sugar with a mixer.

3. Add cooled melted butter and vanilla to the egg mixture and mix until smooth.

4. Add the mixture of dry ingredients and knead the dough until the lumps disappear completely. Gently fold the toasted almonds into the batter.

5. Divide the resulting dough into 2 equal parts, form them into 2 loaves measuring approximately 12 by 20 cm, and place in the oven.

6. Bake the loaves for 20-25 minutes until golden brown. Remove from the oven, let them cool for 5-7 minutes and cut into 1cm thick slices.

7. Place the cut loaves in one layer on a baking sheet and bake for 10 minutes on each side. Delicious, crispy and aromatic biscotti with almonds are ready!

Biscotti cookies: traditional recipe

Oddly enough, but Italian Biscotti cookies do not have a single recipe. Every pastry chef and housewife has their own secret way of baking this delicacy.

In general, in Italy such cookies are called “Biscotto”, which translated from Latin means “twice baked”. First, the baked goods are sent as a whole loaf or roll into the oven and baked until done. Then they cut it into slices and put it back in the oven to dry.

On a note! You can add dried fruits, berries, fruits, jam, poppy seeds and other ingredients to your taste in Biscotti cookies.

These cookies are usually served with a glass of wine, but you can give preference to a cup of tea or coffee.

Compound:

• 125 g wheat flour;
• 30 g raisins;
• 100 g granulated sugar;
• one chicken egg;
• 40 g prunes;
• 30 g dried apricots;
• 25 g chopped almonds;
• 1 tsp. cognac or balsam;
• a pinch of finely ground salt;
• 1 tsp. baking powder;
• a handful of chopped walnuts.

Preparation:

1. Place raisins, dried apricots and pitted prunes in a bowl.
2. Pour boiling water over it and leave for a quarter of an hour.
3. Then we drain the water and dry the dried fruits in a colander.
4. Break the egg into a deep bowl.
5. Combine it with granulated sugar and grind thoroughly until a homogeneous mass is obtained.

6. Sift the wheat flour and add to the egg-sugar mixture.

7. Mix these ingredients and add finely ground salt.

8. Add baking powder. It can be pre-mixed with flour.

9. Mix the dough well.
10. Add almond petals. The nuts can be crushed in a blender or finely chopped with a knife.

11. Cut the steamed dried fruits into small cubes, of course, with the exception of raisins.

12. Remove the shells from the walnuts.
13. Finely chop the kernels with a knife.
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14. Add chopped nuts and dried fruits to the dough.
15. Add a little vanilla for flavor.

16. Pour in cognac. This drink can be replaced with any liqueur or balm.

17. Knead the dough thoroughly until the mixture has a homogeneous consistency.
18. We form a loaf from the dough.
19. Cover a heat-resistant form with parchment greased with refined vegetable oil, place the dough on top
20. We send the workpiece to the oven for 40 minutes.
21. Bake at a temperature of 150°.

22. Cool the baked goods and then cut them into slices approximately 10-15 mm thick.

23. Place the cookies on a wire rack and place in the oven, preheated to 150°.
24. Bake for another 20 minutes.

25. Italian crispy cookies with dried fruits and nuts are ready.

The best variations of Italian biscotti

It must be said right away that biscotti cookies certainly require the use of some drink in tandem with them - it can be absolutely any drink - coffee, tea, juice. If you eat these baked goods dry, you will get the impression that you are eating a simple cracker. And now you can move on to variations of the best recipes for this Italian pastry, which are easy to master at home.

Classic biscotti recipe

Preparing this recipe will take you an hour and a half, and the process is not that fast, but the delicious crispy pastries will make you forget about the time spent. First of all, you and I need to familiarize ourselves with the ingredients that are included in the classic biscotti recipe:

• A glass with a small pile of flour.
• Half a teaspoon of baking powder.
• 30 gr. freshly ground coffee beans.
• A handful of walnuts without shells.
• 3 chicken eggs.
• Zest from one large orange.
• A handful of raisins.
• 150 gr. powdered sugar.
• Salt on the tip of the knife.

Cooking cookies according to the classic recipe

All the products are simple and available in any store, and the process of preparing these cookies is just as simple; there are no special tricks involved in this preparation.

Now our instructions for culinary “maneuvers”, proceed step by step:

1. Sift all the flour through a sieve into a deep bowl, pour salt, baking powder, and ground coffee beans into the same bowl.
2. Now we grind the raisins and nuts in a blender, pour this nutritious “mixture” into a bowl with flour and begin to mix all the components into one mass.
3. Take a bowl and pour powdered sugar into it, and also break the chicken eggs and beat a little using a blender. Then add the orange zest and beat again a little. Pour the resulting “slurry” into a bowl where the “bulk” ingredients are mixed, mix everything thoroughly.
4. Divide the resulting dough mass into four identical pieces, and then roll them into loaves.
5. Preheat the oven, setting the temperature to 180 degrees, remove the baking sheet until it is hot and cover it with a piece of baking paper - parchment. Place all the dough loaves on a parchment sheet and bake them in the oven for 20 minutes.
6. When 20 minutes are up, take out the baking sheet and let the pieces cool for 10 minutes, and then cut all the pieces into cookies. Place the chopped cookies all over the parchment again and return to the oven for 8 minutes. Eight minutes are up, it's time to flip the Italian biscotti the other way and bake for another 8 minutes.

At the end of the second “eight minutes”, take out the baking tray with the baked goods and transfer all the “beauty” into a suitable container, pour yourself some coffee or another favorite drink, and eat with appetite!

Recipe for biscuits from Yulia Vysotskaya

Yulia Vysotskaya prepares this pastry according to a slightly different recipe, now we will share it with you. The recipe from the TV presenter is simple and you can easily cope with it yourself, armed with our culinary recommendations. First, of course, a list of necessary products to create this dessert pastry:

• A glass with a small mountain of wheat flour.
• Corn flour-150 gr.
• A little less than a glass of granulated sugar.
• 3 chicken eggs.
• Soda, you can replace it with baking powder - 2/3 teaspoon.
• A packet of vanilla.
• A packet of cinnamon.
• 30 ml of lemon juice - this is necessary for those who use soda.
• Almond chips, dates, hazelnuts, prunes, dried apricots, chocolate, raisins - you add these ingredients according to your preference.

We prepare biscotti cookies according to the recipe of the famous presenter

These biscotti cookies with nuts and other hearty ingredients are prepared in almost the same time as the previous variation of baking. Here is the action plan, we follow it step by step:

1. Place all the listed dried fruits and nuts in a bowl and pour boiling water over them to soften. The mixture has softened, cut it all into small pieces. Grind the nuts with a blender.
2. Mix sugar with flour, then add soda slaked with lemon juice, mix everything again.
3. Break the eggs into a bowl and add vanilla and cinnamon and mix. Pour the egg slurry with seasonings into the flour and knead the dough, the dough should be elastic.
4. Add crushed nuts and dried fruits to the dough and mix everything together.
5. Sprinkle the table with a small amount of flour and pour out the dough, knead it well, and then divide it into 2 equal lumps and form dough sausages 25 cm long from the lumps.
6. Roll out a sheet of parchment onto a baking sheet and place the “sausages”. Heat the oven at 180 degrees. Bake future biscotti for 25 minutes. When the time has passed, take out the baking sheet and cool the baked goods for 10 minutes.
7. We cut each sausage into neat cookies, cut diagonally, this will make the baked goods more beautiful. We send the baked goods back to bake for 10 minutes, after 10 minutes we turn the cookies over and bake the unbaked side for the same 10 minutes.

The cooking timer has ticked off, take out the baked, crispy deliciousness and place it on a wide bowl. Do you remember that biscotti plus a flavored drink is an irreplaceable combination; eating these cookies dry is boring!

Cookies with fruit fillings

Only dried fruits are put into the dough. Large dried apricots, prunes or dates should first be cut into pieces. Dried berries - raisins, dried cranberries or lingonberries - can be used whole. However, first you need to make sure that there are no seeds left in them. In some recipes, dried fruits require pre-steaming in boiling water or soaking in alcohol.

These cookies can be made from a relatively small number of ingredients:

• flour - 1 glass;
• raisins, dried cranberries and almonds - 50 g each;
• eggs - 2 pcs.;
• sugar - 150 g;
• vanilla sugar - 1 tsp;
• baking powder - 1 tsp;
• salt - 0.5 tsp.

Mix the sifted flour with salt and baking powder, add the eggs beaten with sugar. Knead the dough, gradually adding dried fruits and almonds. Form 2 loaves of bread from it and place in an oven preheated to 150°C for 30-40 minutes.

Care must be taken to ensure that the bread remains golden and creamy and not baked until brown.

Then cool them on a wire rack and cut them diagonally into slices no more than 1 cm thick. Dry the cookies in the oven for another half hour, but before doing so, reduce the temperature to 130°C.

To prepare the next delicacy, you need to prepare half a glass of oatmeal, a ripe banana, 75 g of pitted dates and 50 g of cashews. Chop the dates, dry the nuts a little in the oven and crush them. Cut the bananas into rings and mash with a fork.

Add to them 1 egg and 1 tbsp. l. Sahara. Mix the mixture, beat lightly with a whisk or mixer. Pour sifted flour into it, combined with 1 tsp. baking powder and 1 tsp. vanilla sugar. Knead the dough, adding dates and cashews to it. It will turn out quite sticky, so to form the loaf, you need to moisten your hands with water.

Bake the product for 20-25 minutes in an oven preheated to 180°C. When it has cooled, cut into slices 1-1.5 cm thick and re-bake in the oven for 5-7 minutes on both sides.

Classic fillings: honey, nuts and chocolate

Honey adds a special aroma to any baked goods, so many confectioners add it to biscotti. Almonds can be replaced with other nuts, such as hazelnuts or peanuts. Thanks to chocolate, the products will acquire a rich brown color.

For chocolate cookies you need to take the following products:

• flour - 1.5 cups;
• sugar - 1 glass;
• large eggs - 3 pcs.;
• soda - 1 tsp;
• salt - on the tip of the knife;
• peeled hazelnuts - 2/3 cup;
• chocolate chips - 2/3 cup.

Beat eggs with sugar for 5 minutes. Then pour them into a bowl with sifted flour, which should first be mixed with soda and salt. Knead the dough, then pour chocolate chips and hazelnuts into it. Knead gently for another 2-3 minutes to ensure the fillings are evenly distributed throughout the dough.

However, you don’t need to get too carried away, as the warmth of your hands will cause the chocolate chips to melt. Divide the dough into 2 parts, form small loaves of bread and bake them in the oven.

Baking with honey is prepared as follows. First you need to separate 2 egg whites and beat them together with 3 tbsp. l. sugar into a strong foam. Then, without turning off the mixer, gradually add half a glass of sifted flour and 100 g of almonds cut into small pieces. In biscotti, if the recipe is classic, it is recommended to add 0.5 tsp. ground allspice.

The dough should be baked at 180°C in rectangular pans, which are previously greased with oil and lined with baking paper. When a crust appears on the products, the molds need to be removed from the oven and cooled.

Then remove the loaves from the molds, wrap in foil and let rest for several hours. After this, cut and dry in the oven for 20-25 minutes, remembering to turn over.