Baci di dama: the kissing biscuits
Baci di dama are small Italian biscuits made from hazelnuts and butter, held together by a layer of melted chocolate. The perfect sweet treat with your coffee or tea.
Ingredients
- 100 gr. hazelnuts
- 100 gr. caster sugar
- 100 gr. butter
- 20 gr. flour
- 80 gr. Verkade kookchocolade
- pinch of salt
Instructions
- 1
1. Preheat the oven to 180 C. 2. Spread the hazelnuts over a baking sheet lined with parchment paper and roast them in the oven for 8 minutes until golden brown. 3. Put the hazelnuts in a food processor, add 2 tablespoons of sugar and blitz to a powder. Now add the remaining sugar, the butter and the salt and mix until creamy. Spoon the mixture into a bowl, add the flour and knead it in thoroughly. 4. Roll the dough into cherry-sized balls and place them on the baking sheet. Make sure to leave about 2 centimetres of space between them; the biscuits will spread and if they’re too close they’ll stick together. Bake the biscuits for 15 minutes and then let them cool.
- 2
5. Meanwhile we’ll melt the chocolate: bring a small amount of water to a simmer in a small saucepan and set a bowl on top. Melt the chocolate au bain-marie. Take a cooled biscuit, dip it into the melted chocolate and press another biscuit against it so they stick together. Do this for all the biscuits. Left with one? Dip it in chocolate and enjoy it right away 😉
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