Christmas Calendar 2019 Day 14 - Christmas biscotti

It is time to bake some cookies for the upcoming Christmas coffee, so i fill the stomachs of my guests. I have found this recipe in small Christmas recipe leaflet from the weekly magazine Søndag. I have made no changes to the recipe. You could also have a look at this recipe on muscovado biscotti.

Christmas biscotti:

• 150 g marzipan - cut into smaller pieces
• 300 g wheat flour
• 200 g sugar
• 1 teaspoon ground cardamon
• 1 teaspoon ground ginger
• 1 teaspoon ground carnation
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 3 eggs
• 150 g whole almonds

1. Heat up the oven to 175'C.
2. Add all in the ingredients in the mixing bowl of the stand alone mixer.
3. Knead everything together.
4. At the end knead the dough together by hand on a piece of baking parchement
5. Divide the dough into two parts.
6. By hand roll the each dough piece into a size of 5 x 35-40 cm.
7. Bake the dough at 175'C for 20 minutes.
8. Remove the biscotti from the oven.
9. After a cool down, slice the biscotti into pieces of 1 cm.
10. If needed bake the biscotti pieces at 150-C for 5-10 minutes to get the desired dryness.
11. Cold down.
12. Store in an airtight container.