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Lean Chocolate Biscotti

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Italy

Known as an Italian recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 10 ingredients

  1. Cookies
  2. 1/3 C Unsweetened Cocoa Powder
  3. 1/4 C Butter Or Margarine -- at room temp
  4. 2 Tsp Milk -- approx
  5. 1/3 C Powdered Sugar
  6. 1/2 C Sugar
  7. 4 Lg Egg Whites
  8. 2 Tsp Baking Powder
  9. Cut
  10. 2 C All-Purpose Flour
Contains GlutenEggsMilk Read from the ingredients, not verified. Check labels.

Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Oven and hot trays. Use dry oven gloves for trays and dishes: a hot tray looks just like a cold one. Open the oven door away from your face and let the first rush of heat out.
  • Hot sugar. Hot sugar sticks to skin and burns far hotter than boiling water: don't touch or taste it. Keep a bowl of cold water close, and keep children away while it cooks.
  • Sharp knives. Cut on a board that doesn't slip (a damp cloth under it helps), and curl the fingers of the hand that holds the food.

Method

  1. With a mixer on high speed, beat butter and granulates sugar until fluffy. Add egg whites and beat until well-blended. Stir in flour, cocoa, and baking powder; mix until well blended.
  2. On a buttered 12 x 15" baking sheet, shape dough down the length of the pan into a flat log 2 1/2" wide and 5/8" thick.
  3. Bake in a 350 deg F oven until crusty and firm to touch, about 20 min. Let cool about 5 min.
  4. On pan, cut log diagonally into 1/2" thick slices. Lay slices cut side down (they can touch). Return to oven and bake until cookies feel firm and dry, 15 - 20 min. Transfer to racks; let cool.
  5. Smoothly mix powdered sugar and enough milk to make pourable icing. Using a spoon, drizzle icing decoratively over biscotti. Let stand until icing is dry, about 15 min. Serve, or store airtight up to 1 week.
  6. Makes about 20

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Baking tray
  • Electric mixer
  • Blender
  • Chef's knife
  • Wooden spoon
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Credit

Recipe By: Sunset Magazine, Dec 1995, pg 117 (Reggie Dwork). Saved from www.eat-lowfat.com (http://www.eat-lowfat.com/recipe/text/e1196-3.txt), file Original-Directories/www.eat-lowfat.com/recipe/text/e1196-3.txt in the Internet Archive item cooking-recipes (https://archive.org/details/cooking-recipes).

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