Inspired by an article called Biscotti and its Crunchy Cousins, I decided to finally take a shot at making Pane del Pescatore — a cookie I discovered at a little bakery in Florence just south of the Ponte Vecchio bridge.
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Cookies — Cut & Shaped
First, I tried making the cinnamon roll dough as biscotti. It worked perfectly on my first try. The biscotti were crispy on the outside and a little softer in the center than typical Italian biscotti, but they still tasted good and were kind fun to make.
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Published on April 6, 2010
My dad came over for dinner last night which gave us a good excuse to open the Vin Santo we bought at Fattoria San Michele a Torri. My dad had never heard of Vin Santo, but was pretty excited about trying it since he’d never dipped cookies in wine before. Of course that meant I [...]
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Published on March 26, 2010
I had a long story to go with this biscotti, but I just erased it. The important thing to know is this is biscotti #3 of the great gingerbread biscotti trials which I plan to finish by Christmas. To jog your memory…. Recipe #1. was gingerbread biscotti from allrecipes. It didn’t have any add-ins and [...]
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Published on March 3, 2010
Oh goodness. I’m feeling overwhelmed today, but I did make a second gingerbread biscotti recipe to place in the gingerbread biscotti lineup which will certainly come in handy around 8 months from now when normal people are thinking about gingerbread flavored things. As for me, I liked this better than the previous gingerbread biscotti. It [...]
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Published on February 17, 2010
The biscotti/cantuccini obsession continues, and early this week I made yet another batch. Because it seemed like an interesting departure from the usual almond flavor, I chose “gingerbread biscotti” from Allrecipes.com. Along with making the house smell good, the biscotti were satisfying on so many levels that I’ll probably test a few different recipes to find the perfect “ginger [...]
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Published on February 11, 2010
I’ve been eating biscotti for days. You’d think I’d be tired of it but no, I’m still craving the flavor and the crunch with my noon hour coffee– crunch being the key word here. I now prefer the oil-free, hard, Italian style biscotti over the more tender, less tooth-cracking type made with butter or oil. Last [...]
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Published on February 3, 2010
Yesterday I bought the ingredients for a raspberry pie with a chocolate wafer crust. Thinking I’d save money by making the chocolate wafers myself, I used a recipe off a blog. The 14 tablespoons of butter was a clue that the cookies would be greasy, but I blindly followed the directions as written, ground up the cookies and [...]
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Published on June 17, 2009
