It’s time to start baking biscotti and what better day than yesterday when it was cold and snowy. So I got a couple new ingredients together for this batch. Please refer to my basic recipe. We bought some King Arthur Double-Dutch Dark Cocoa so I just had to try it. Then I came across these…
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HB in Five: Chocolate Espresso WW Cupcakes
This week, one of the baking challenges involved the Chocolate Espresso Whole Wheat Brioche dough. I just couldn’t resist making cupcakes! I didn’t have bittersweet chocolate so I substituted semisweet chocolate chips. Well, I asked my expert taste tester and head chef Dave what he thought about this recipe. He agreed with me that this…
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[donotprint] Two of favorite things are cherries and chocolate. I love cherry anything including cherry jello. And I can eat about anything covered in chocolate except bugs! Last year our cherry trees didn’t produce at all. This year it looks like we will have enough for several cobblers and to add some 2-cup bags to…
Read MoreBiscotti Baking Round Three
Well, it’s another round of biscotti baking this morning. Today I tried a couple different variations on my original recipe. In the front is Black and White biscotti. Behind left is Walnut biscotti and on the right is Chocolate Chip. For the Black and White, I divided the dough in half. I formed the one…
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Well, it’s starting! The biscotti (or cantuccini) baking marathon has begun! Yesterday I made three batches – one chocolate chocolate chips and two basic almond biscotti. Here they are in the oven in various stages of cooking: the chocolate is on it’s last bake, an almond is on the second bake, and the whole loaves…
Read MoreIt’s Cantuccini (Biscotti) Baking Time Again
I’ve been baking biscotti every Christmas for at least the last ten years. I started baking this cookie after getting tired of paying an arm and leg for one little slice at the local coffee shop. In 2006, when we toured Italy I couldn’t wait to try real biscotti. I found out quickly that what…
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I love chocolate. I could (and do) eat some form of it every day. Michelle’s recipe for Black-Bottom Cupcakes made me hungry for chocolate. Tonight is the Master Gardeners’ meeting and in addition to their skills as gardeners, this group loves to cook and eat. Anyway, I thought it would be a great excuse for…
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