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    Home » By Ingredient » Nuts » Almonds

    Published: Sep 8, 2011 · Modified: May 6, 2023 by Usha Rao

    Chocolate Almond Biscotti for Sweet Punch

    Biscotti is an Italian biscuit, baked twice to make it crunchy. Whenever I pass by Starbucks, I am tempted to go in, not for the coffee (I don't drink coffee) but for the biscotti... 🙂 Anyways, when I saw this month's sweet punch, I did not want to miss the bake. As usual, I put off baking it until the last minute and yesterday, I baked it with the ingredients that I had at home. I was reluctant to bake it yesterday as the weather was very bad and I was afraid I won’t be able to take good pictures. Fortunately, sun peeked out of the clouds a little bit and was able to take ok pictures! 🙂

    Sweet punch team chose Joy of Baking and I followed the recipe with a few substitutions. I made the substitutions as I did not have all the ingredients in my pantry. The substitutions I made are:

    • The recipe called for 4 oz. of semi-sweet or bitter sweet chocolate or chocolate chips. I had 3 oz. of semi chocolate bars and substituted the rest with ⅓ cup (approx. 1 oz, I did not weight them and guessed it to be ⅓ cup of chips) of semi-sweet chocolate chips.
    • The recipe called for 1 tsp. of baking powder. After the started the preparation, I realized I had only ½ tsp. of baking powder. I substituted the other half with ⅛ tsp. of baking soda.
    • Also, the recipe called for 110gm. or ¾ cups of almond and I had only 99gms (3½ oz).

    I would recommend following the original recipe and not the substitutions I made, unless all the ingredients are not available. The recipe below is the original recipe.
    Chocolate Almond Biscotti, Joy of baking chocolate almond biscotti

    Source: Joy of Baking
    Total Time: 65- 70 minutes
    Preparation: 10-15 minutes
    Baking Time: 45 minutes
    Resting Time: 10 minutes
    Yields: 14 – 16 Biscotti

    Ingredients:

    • ¾ cup or 110 gms. blanched chopped Almonds (I used 99gms)
    • 4 oz. or 110 grams Semi-Sweet or Bittersweet Chocolate squares chopped or use Chocolate Chips instead
    • 1 tsp. Baking Powder
    • ¼ tsp. Salt
    • 1 ¾ cups or 225 gms. All Purpose Flour
    • ⅔ cup or 135 gms. Granulated Sugar
    • 2 large Eggs at room temperature (I left it on the counter top for couple of hours)
    • 1 tsp. Vanilla Extract

    Preparation:

    • Toast almonds for 5-7 minutes until lightly toasted and let them cool. Chop them coarsely. I bought chopped blanched almonds and coarsely chopped them. I think it would have been fine even if I did not coarsely chop them.
    • If using chocolate squares, chop the chocolate squares into ½ inch pieces. I would prefer using chocolate chips though.
    • Sift together salt, baking powder, flour and keep aside.
    • Preheat the oven to 350 F and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
    • In a big bowl, beat eggs and sugar until light yellow and fluffy. It would take about 5-7 minutes with a hand held electric beater/mixer. When the beaters are raised, the batter should drop slowly as a ribbon (as mentioned in the original recipe).
    • Add vanilla extract and mix well.
    • Fold in the sifted flour mixture. I used the fold mode of my beater. Be careful here. The dough is stiff and the beaters will move slowly. Or you can fold in the flour using a spatula.
    • Add the almonds, chocolate and mix well until well incorporated into the dough.
    • Place the dough on the lined baking tray and shape it into a log, a 12” long & 3 ½” wide log/loaf. If required wet hands as the dough is sticky. I did not wet my hands though.
    • Bake it in a 350F preheated oven for 25 minutes or until the loaf is firm. I was not use how firm the dough ought to be hence baked it for 30 minutes. I felt 25 minutes would have been sufficient.
    • Remove the loaf/log of biscotti and cool it on a wire rack for 10 minutes.
    • Reduce the oven temperature to 325F. as we need to bake the biscotti again.
    • Slice the biscotti loaf diagonally into ¾” slices.
      chocolate almond bisoctti
    • Transfer the slices onto the baking tray, sliced side facing the tray.
      chocolate almond bisoctti
    • Bake the biscotti for 10 minutes on 325F, turn the biscotti and bake for another 10 minutes or until light golden brown.
    • Transfer them to a cooling rack and let them cool.
    • Once cool, store them in an airtight container.

    chocolate almond bisoctti, joy of baking chocolate almond bisoctti

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    1. Amy says

      October 10, 2011 at 7:23 pm

      sounds yummy...

      Reply
    2. Saji says

      September 21, 2011 at 12:17 pm

      Love these biscotti's...

      Reply
    3. Jayasri says

      September 14, 2011 at 3:33 am

      Wow, lovely looking biscottis, first time here, lovely blog too.., I joined sweet punch, and enjoyed baking them!, Lovely clicks, do visit me sometime when you have time

      Reply
    4. priya srinivasan says

      September 14, 2011 at 2:16 am

      Looks Delicious!!! Enjoyed baking them!! 🙂

      Reply
    5. Priya says

      September 11, 2011 at 6:09 am

      Biscottis looks absolutely elegant and quite addictive Usha..

      Reply
    6. Treat and Trick says

      September 10, 2011 at 11:52 am

      Looks perfect and yummy!

      Reply
    7. Suchitra says

      September 10, 2011 at 3:44 am

      Really really perfect!!

      Reply
    8. renu says

      September 10, 2011 at 2:06 am

      Thanks for sharing. I love baking , however never tried baking them 🙁

      Reply
    9. Deepa says

      September 09, 2011 at 9:59 pm

      Chocolate biscotti looks simply awesome and delicious.

      Deepa
      Hamaree Rasoi

      Reply
    10. Archana says

      September 09, 2011 at 9:01 am

      Lovely biscotti. I want to have them all the time.:)

      Do check out my event and send me your entries.

      Reply
    11. deeksha says

      September 09, 2011 at 6:26 am

      Looks fantastic. Amazing clicks.

      Reply
    12. Kalyani says

      September 09, 2011 at 5:31 am

      looks great !! would wana have it with tea !

      Reply
    13. Deepali Jain says

      September 09, 2011 at 12:30 am

      great looking biscotti... 🙂

      Reply
    14. Gopika says

      September 08, 2011 at 12:33 pm

      Wow.. looks great 😀 Love it 🙂

      Reply

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