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500g white bread flour
10g fast action yeast
orange zest and juice
1 organic egg
250 ml water
50 grams soft butter
50 grams fine sugar
1 pinch of salt
1 teaspoon anise powder
1 teaspoon cinnamon powder
at least 1 liter oil, for frying
powdered sugar, to taste
500g white bread flour
10g fast action yeast
orange zest and juice
1 organic egg
250 ml water
50 grams soft butter
50 grams fine sugar
1 pinch of salt
1 teaspoon anise powder
1 teaspoon cinnamon powder
at least 1 liter oil, for frying
powdered sugar, to taste
Today we are baking small cookies, which are in Italy especially baked and eaten on Saint Martin's Day. The cookies are not baked in the oven but deep-fried and then sprinkled with lots of icing sugar. Our little monsters love them!
How you make Italian Biscotti di San Martino
How you make Italian Biscotti di San Martino
Scrub an organic orange and then grate and juice it.
Put the flour and the yeast in a mixing bowl.
Add the zest and the egg to the bowl.
Add the softened butter to the mixing bowl as well.
Add sugar, cinnamon, juice and salt.
Sprinkle flour over your baking mat.
First kneadit all in the bowl, then on the mat.
Put the frying oil on and heat it to 180°C
Divide the dough in 10 equal pieces, and roll them.
Cut the rolls into small pieces, like gnocchi.
Place the dough pieces on the tray.
Check if the oil is at the correct temperature.
Place some biscotti pieces into the pan.
Let the fry for a few minutes.
Flip the biscotti over en fry again.
When brown drain the biscotti on kitchen paper.
Place the Biscotti on a clean serving dish.
Dust the Biscotti di San Martino generously with icing sugar.