Orange Chocolate Cantucci
Orange Chocolate Cantucci Biscuits. Crunchy and sweet Italian biscuits filled with melting chocolate chips made for dunking in sweet little glasses of Vin Santo.
- Prep time
- 10 min
- Cook time
- 40 min
- Yield
- 26 servings
- Difficulty
- MEDIUM
Ingredients
- ~2 cups (250g) Plain flour plus (extra for dusting)
- 3 eggs (, large)
- 1/2 tbsp runny honey
- ~3/4 cup (150g) sugar
- zest of 1 orange
- ~1/3 lb (150g) dark chocolate chips or dark chocolate roughly chopped
- 1 pinch smoked salt (or regular)
Instructions
- 1
Preheat the oven to 180°C/350F/gask mark4. Place the flour, sugar, salt and orange zest in a large mixing bowl and mix together. Whisk together 2 eggs and 1 egg yolk (set aside the egg white in a bowl) with a fork and add the honey. Make a well in the centre of the flour mixture and add the eggs and honey. Using a fork whisk the eggs gradually incorporating the flour mixture until a dough forms.
- 2
Add the chocolate chips and knead until they are evenly dispersed throughout the cookie dough (you may need a little extra flour if it's too sticky). Cut the dough in half and shape into two logs on two lined baking trays roughly 2cm thick and 4 cm wide. Brush the logs with remaining egg white and bake in the oven for around 20 minutes until golden.
- 3
Turn the oven down to 130°Once the cookie logs are just cool enough to touch cut them diagonally into individual cookies. Place them flat on a baking tray and bake in the oven for around 15-20 minutes until nice and crisp but not coloured. Serve warm.