Biscotti Cookie Recipe
Chocolate Hazel Biscotti
Serve light desserts like this homemade Chocolate Hazel Biscotti for afternoon tea with family and friends. This chocolate biscotti cookie recipe includes chopped hazelnuts. I hope you will find this biscotti recipe for a chocolate dessert to be among your favourite ones.
Ingredients120 g Semi-sweet Cooking Chocolate
1/2 cup Butter; room temperature
1/2 tsp Vanilla Essence
3 Large Eggs
1 Egg White; lightly beaten
1 cup Castor Sugar
3 cups All-purpose Flour
1 tsp Baking Powder
1 cup Hazelnuts; chopped into small pieces Method
Over a saucepan of boiling water, melt chocolate and butter. With an electric mixer, beat eggs at medium speed until frothy before adding sugar (gradually). Beat until mixture becomes dense and light in colour. Add chocolate mixture and keep stirring until well-blended. Combine both flour and bakingpowder and stir into chocolate mixture. Add in nuts. Sprinkle a bit of flour on the worktop and roll dough into a 12-inch log. Place rolled dough onto a lightly greased baking sheet. Brush the dough with egg white. Bake at 180°C for about 40 to 45 minutes. Leave to cool. Cut log diagonally into 1/2-inch slices, and place on ungreased cookie sheet. Bake at 180°C for 8 to 10 minutes on each side. Leave to cool.
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