Holiday – LilliPop Girl

Chocolate hazelnut biscotti

January 2, 2017

In the holiday season, I love to make cookies to offer as a gift or to eat after cross-country skiing. I wanted to make biscotti for a long time and I found the inspiration of the recipe on the new yorker site smittenkitchen, adapted from a recipe from the New York Time. These biscotti are very rich in cocoa, crisp and do not contain added fat! Makes about 50-60 biscotti Ingredients: 2 cups unbleached flour 1/2 cup…

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