Italian cantucci cookies, the recipe of which will be presented below, is a real discovery for everyone who loves sweets, but is terribly tired of cakes and pastries. Such a cookie can replace breakfast, because it perfectly matches with morning coffee or tea. In addition, cantucci and almond biscuits can be stored for several months, however, it usually does not survive even before the first week.
Almond biscuit cantucci
Ingredients:
- sugar - 450 g;
- baking powder - 7 g;
- egg - 5 pcs .;
- almonds - 500 g;
- flour - 600 g;
- salt - 1 pinch;
- vanillin - 5 g;
- lemon peel - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
- butter - 100 g;
- honey - 50 g.
Preparation
Before starting cooking, you need to make sure that all the ingredients are at room temperature, this applies not only to the oil, but also to the eggs with honey, which many housewives store in refrigerators. One of the eggs must be left to lubricate the dough. In addition, the amount of sugar can be reduced if you do not like very sweet pastries.
Start preparation of cantucci with flour sifting, then send it to a deep bowl, add baking powder and mix thoroughly. Next, in flour, you need to take turns to drive in eggs (do not forget to put one of them before them aside), start kneading the dough with a wooden or silicone spatula.
After a few minutes of stirring, add the softened oil to the flour, mix everything again, then pour out the sugar, lemon zest and knead the dough, also with the help of a spatula.
Finally, you need to add vanillin, salt and honey to the mass, after which the last time you mix everything with a spatula and pour out the almonds into the resulting mass. After that, you need to knead the dough with your hands, it should turn out to be elastic and easily roll into the ball.
The resultant ball can be divided into 6 parts, each of which is rolled into a sausage and sent to a baking sheet.
The egg laid aside should be beaten and smeared with sausages, and then send them for 20-25 minutes in a preheated to 180 degree oven. After 25 minutes, the biscuits should be taken out of the oven and cut each sausage into slices thick with a finger, then spread them on a baking sheet upside down and bake for another 10-15 minutes at the same temperature.
A ready-made cantucci cookie can be stored in a jar, or it can be served immediately as soon as it cools. In any case, such a delicacy will not last long.
Analogue cantucci - cookies biscotti , also great for properly brewed coffee .