biscotti

it's cold, it's autumn, i drink ridicullus amounts of tea. (also- i'm hungover and bored and trying to avoid studying for my practical exam tomorrow) so i made biscotti. or rather italian almond biscotti with lavender. yum!

n.b: these biscuits comes with a warning- they are very hard. if you do not have dentures like jaws, dunk these babies in tea or hot chocolate (or coffee although tea is the perfekt match..)

lavender biscotti
oven 175 degrees celcius

200 grams coarsly chopped almonds
3 eggs
3 dl sugar
1 tablespoon vanilla sugar
1 pinch salt
the zest of one lemon
6,5-7 dl wheatflour
1 teasp. baking powder

Seperate the yolk from the eggwhites, beat the whites and the salt to a hard foam (think meringue). stirr the yolk, sugar and vanillasugar togeather. fold the two batters together, and add the zest and almonds. mix flour and bakingpowder and blend into the eggbatter. work together to make a dough. divide the dough into two, form a roll and place on a oiled bakingsheet. bake for 35 minutes. cut into 1 cm wide slices. bake an additional 15 minutes, 150 degrees.

 

if wanted dipp on end of the cookies in melted chocolate- although this makes the dipping-part of a liiittle complicated. chocolate-tea is... diffenent..