Nigella's biscotti recipe (for Sharon)
May. 19th, 2010 | 01:19 am
Dear Sharon,
Breakfast Biscotti recipe: Nigella Lawson - Feast
Ingredients:
- 1 egg
- ½ cup superfine sugar
- ½ teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- few drops almond extract
- ¾ cup + 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ⅓ cup natural shelled almonds*
- ⅓ cup semisweet chocolate chips*
(* Reminder jx used cranberries and pistachios instead of almonds and choc chips. It's your call really.)
Instructions:
- Preheat the oven to 350°F.
- Whisk the egg and sugar until pale and moussily thick; I use an electric mixer here, as you want the mixture whipped enough so that when you lift the whisk attachment out of it, you are left with a trail of ribbons. Beat in the vanilla and almonds extracts, and then slowly fold in the flour, baking powder and salt.
- When the batter's all combined, fold in the whole almonds and chocolate pieces, and then form the dough into a loaf-like log of about 10 × 2 inches, slightly tapering the ends.
- Lay the biscotti log on to a piece of baking parchment on a baking sheet and cook for 25 minutes: it will be a pale brown color. Leave for 5 minutes to harden slightly, and then cut diagonal slants of about ½ in thickness along the length of the loaf to give finger-like pieces.
- Put these back on to the parchment paper covered baking sheet and cook again for another 10 minutes, turn the biscotti over and then cook for another 5 minutes. Let the golden brown biscotti cool on a rack and then store them in an airtight container ready to be plucked and dunked at a moment's anticipatory notice.
Also, check out step by step instructions here. Good luck!
Breakfast Biscotti recipe: Nigella Lawson - Feast
Ingredients:
- 1 egg
- ½ cup superfine sugar
- ½ teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- few drops almond extract
- ¾ cup + 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ⅓ cup natural shelled almonds*
- ⅓ cup semisweet chocolate chips*
(* Reminder jx used cranberries and pistachios instead of almonds and choc chips. It's your call really.)
Instructions:
- Preheat the oven to 350°F.
- Whisk the egg and sugar until pale and moussily thick; I use an electric mixer here, as you want the mixture whipped enough so that when you lift the whisk attachment out of it, you are left with a trail of ribbons. Beat in the vanilla and almonds extracts, and then slowly fold in the flour, baking powder and salt.
- When the batter's all combined, fold in the whole almonds and chocolate pieces, and then form the dough into a loaf-like log of about 10 × 2 inches, slightly tapering the ends.
- Lay the biscotti log on to a piece of baking parchment on a baking sheet and cook for 25 minutes: it will be a pale brown color. Leave for 5 minutes to harden slightly, and then cut diagonal slants of about ½ in thickness along the length of the loaf to give finger-like pieces.
- Put these back on to the parchment paper covered baking sheet and cook again for another 10 minutes, turn the biscotti over and then cook for another 5 minutes. Let the golden brown biscotti cool on a rack and then store them in an airtight container ready to be plucked and dunked at a moment's anticipatory notice.
Also, check out step by step instructions here. Good luck!
The above was posted on Huijia's blog! She's so damn sweet!!!
In Melbourne, Jiaxi made damn good biscotti. I told Huijia randomly that I want the recipe too. And she remembered!!!
Anyway, my biscotti was a failure. haha! The pictures should be posted on fail blog.
So much effort!!! I salute Jiaxi! Her biscotti were perfect!
Look at mine:
The was after the 1st baking process.Had to slice it into many thin slices.
The after process.
The after process.My biscotti were way too fat! hahaha!
They look more like garlic bread.
I'm kind of proud of it.
I'm kind of proud of it.It tasted nice! (but not Jiaxi's biscotti kind of nice. Hers was awesome!)
hahaha! One last shot.
hahaha! One last shot.I dunno what went wrong!!!
Think I didn't keep track of the time properly.
I'll try again soon!
Sam, u see this? Bake with me okay?!!!
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