Recipe: Perfect Choco-Almond Biscotti

Choco-Almond Biscotti.

You can cook Choco-Almond Biscotti using 8 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Choco-Almond Biscotti

1. Prepare 30 Gms of Almonds.
2. You need 45 gms of Sugar.
3. Prepare 75 gms (1/2 cup) of Cake Flour or All Purpose flour with 1 tblspn replaced with cornflour.
4. Prepare 10 gms of Cocoa Powder.
5. You need 3 gms of Baking Powder.
6. You need 40 gms of Dark Chocolate.
7. It's 1 of Egg (or maybe 1.5 eggs, depending on size of egg, as required to make a wet rough dough).
8. You need 1 teaspoon of Vanilla.

Choco-Almond Biscotti step by step

1. Preheat oven to 160 c, and toast the almonds for 10 mins.
2. Give the cooled toasted almonds and chocolate a rough chop, leaving mid sized chunks.
3. Sift together the flour, cocoa powder and baking powder a few times and then mix in the sugar till well combined.
4. Add the egg and vanilla to the flour mix and cut in using a spatula. Keep cutting and turning till a wet rough dough is formed..
5. Fold in the almonds and chocolate chunks.
6. Shape into log on a surface dusted with flour and place in oven on a parchment, do an egg wash and sprinkle with sugar.
7. Bake in preheated oven at 170c for 30 mins.
8. Remove from oven and cool for 20 mins.
9. Slice into 15mm pieces and place back on rack and bake for 20 mins (alternatively, if using pan, then bake for 10 mins on each side).