Cantucci di Casa Mola
Cantucci are great dipped in the red or white wine that’s left in your glass after dinner, or a sweet Vin Santo, Limoncello, or Amaro, or why not, together with your morning coffee, or like my grandchildren, reach for a few every time they pass through the kitchen.

Ingredients:

225 g. 00 white flour

2 medium eggs

100 g. sugar

100 g. almonds

35 g. butter

1tsp. baking soda

1tsp. vanilla extract or equivalent, or the zest of one orange.

Procedure:

Beat the eggs and mix in the sugar, melted butter and vanilla extract.

Stir in the almonds.

Mix the baking powder with the flour and fold it into it the egg mixture.

Knead the dough until it comes together and is firm and silky and divide it into three equal parts.

Roll them into lengths of approximately 25 cm.

Bake for 30 minutes at 175 c.

Remove from the oven and while they are warm, slice them diagonally into 1 cm. thick pieces.

Bake the sliced cantucci for another 5-6 minutes at the same temperature.

Makes about 30-35 biscotti.

Note: Biscotti, means twice baked.