Classic Chocolate Chip Biscotti

Name: Classic Chocolate Chip Biscotti
Yield: Makes about 30
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: 250 g soft lightly salted butter; 200–350 g real dark chocolate chips or roughly cut pieces of real dark chocolate; 3 eggs; 125 g white sugar; 2 tsp real vanilla essence; 550 g 00 (Italian doppio zero) flour, sifted; 250 g brown sugar

Preparation info

Makes about
30

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Real Chocolate

By Chantal Coady

Published 2003

About

I saw these being made at a charity wine auction in a palazzo near Frantoia, outside Florence. I suppose it was an Italian equivalent to a church fete, but conducted with great aplomb.

Ingredients

250 g soft lightly salted butter
250 g brown sugar
125

Europe
Italy
Florence
Dessert
Mediterranean
Cookies
Vegetarian

Method

Preheat the oven to 180°C/Gas 4 and line a baking tray with a silicone baking sheet or greaseproof paper. In a large bowl, cream the butter and sugars, then beat in the eggs. Add the flour, spoonful by spoonful. When all mixed in, add the vanilla and chocolate chips or pieces. Spoon th