Italian Biscotti So Delicious
hey! what's up guys?danny from danny mac's kitchen great to see you as alwaysi'm very happy to be sharing my mid-afternoon cappuccino with you guysyou know i always enjoy your company but i'm thinking to myself what could bebetter than sharing my company with you right now?well i can tell you: sitting in a massaging chairwatching the walking dead on a samsung 70 inch curved television wearing chinchillaslippers that would be better but i'll settle forthis amazing biscotti this recipe i've prepared for you todayis a chocolate amaretto biscotti
very simple to do, we're going to throw ittogether and i'm going to show you how to do it right now!let's go! first up guys we're goingto combine the dry ingredients together 2 cups of all purpose flour1/2 cup of cocoa powder and 1 teaspoon of baking sodajust wisk until combined next up we're going to cream togetherthe sugar i have 1 cup and i have 3 quarters of a stick of salted butterwe're going to throw about an ounce of amaretto in here which is reallygoing to make this fantastic use a hand mixer and mix this for2 to 3 minutes
after about 3 minutes this sugar isnice and dissolved we're going to put in 2 eggsminus that shell right there let's get that out (laughs)ok...1 more and just wisk all this togetherlet's add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients make sure you have a spatula so youcan get it all out of there after this we're going to throw in acup of sliced almonds and a cup of chocolate chipsas so! and really mix this up, it's going to makea nice thick, doughy kind of batter so really work itit's going to take about 4 to 5 minutes
let's transfer this dough to a cutting boardit's going to be really dense and thick that's ok that's what we wantflour up your hands a little bit kind of form a compact ballwe're going to cut this in half and we're going to form 2 logswith a little bit of additonal flour start rolling this out we're goingto make a nice log out of this probably about a foot long i want to saydefinitely use flour or it's going to stick to your hands and stick to the cutting boardso we're going to do this 2 times and just kind of flatten itso i'm going to transfer this a lined baking sheetso i'm just going to mold this a little bit
and make it perfecti'm using a baking mat which is special because there are tons of holes in itthat allow the air to come through if you don't have this by all means useparchment paper that works absolutely perfect toonow i have pre-heated my oven to 350 degrees i just want to make this a little bit perfectthis is looking great we're going to bake these for 30 to 40 minutesthat should be the perfect time and i'll see you guys in a little bitalright guys 30 minutes have passed let's take a lookrocking! very cool! what i need you to do is we're going tolet this sit for at least 10 to 15 minutes
do not turn your oven off because weare going to bake this again biscotti means baking twice solet it rest for 15 minutes and i will check it with you in a little bitwe've cooled off a little bit let's take one of these logs and we're goingto transfer it to the cutting board where we'regoing to start cutting it on a bias or horizontally to get a really good cookieshape about a half an inch per cookie should beperfect so this is a twice baked cookie so now thatwe're sliced i'm going to return it back to the baking sheet still lined and we'regoing to continue to bake these
for an additional 10 minutes and get themeven crispier so we can dip it into our coffee, cappuccino, and it's going to rock!so we baked for an additional 10 minutes let's plate this upget yourself a fantastic cup of coffee, cappuccino or a nice double espressoit's really going to be amazing i'm going to garnish with alittle bit of powdered sugar i hope you enjoy this guys!guys i really hope you enjoyed today's episode it's always really nice to have a cookie ora pastry to go with your mid-afternoon cappuccino, or coffee or espressoalthough i didn't get to watch the walking deadon that beautiful 70 inch curved samsung television
that i've been dreaming of...it was so greatto spend time with you guys and ican't believe that there is only 1 episode leftand they better not kill carol or daryl i'm telling you because they aremy favorite characters of all time guys if you enjoyed this episode pleasesubscribe to our channel share this with your friends and family onfacebook give us a thumbs up, give us a likegreat being with you today until next time...danny from danny mac's kitchen
