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Recipe of the month – Cafédirect’s Coffee & Almond Biscotti

posted at 1:42pm, 13 Jan 10 by Siobhan [ 3 comments ]

The first of our recipes this year is for a delicious Coffee & Almond Biscotti. They are easy and quick to make so try them out, share with friends over a morning coffee or after dinner espresso and tell us what you think!

Cafédirect's coffee & almond biscotti

Cafédirect's coffee & almond biscotti

Preparation Time: 10 minutes
Cooking Time: 35 minutes
Makes: 24 biscuits

Ingredients:
225g self-raising flour
100g Fairtrade golden caster sugar
100g roughly chopped almonds
1 tbsp Cafédirect Classics Medium Roast Freeze Dried Instant coffee (or use our Decaffeinated Organic Instant coffee)
2 eggs
50g slightly salted butter, melted and cooled

Method

  1. Preheat the oven to 190 degrees C /375 degrees F/Gas Mark 5.
  2. Put the self-raising flour into a bowl and stir in the golden caster sugar and almonds. Place the Cafédirect coffee into a sieve and with the back of a spoon crush the granules through the sieve into the bowl.
  3. Beat together the eggs and butter. Add to the bowl and mix to a dough. Turn out onto the surface and cut in half.
  4. Shape each half into a log 24 cm long. Space well apart on a parchment paper lined baking sheet and flatten each until about 7cm wide. Bake for 20 minutes. Leave to cool for 20 minutes.
  5. Using a serrated knife cut each logpiece into about 12 slices. Space the biscuits slightly apart and return to the oven for a further 15 minutes.  Cool and serve with a cup of Cafédirect coffee of your choice.

If you have any recipes that use our tea, coffee or cocoa, or go well with a cuppa,  send them to us and we’ll be happy to test them out!

Comments

  1. Celia says:
    January 20, 2010 at 5:59 pm

    Oh yum – those sound good – I love it when I get them with coffee….

  2. Cafédirect HQ says:
    January 15, 2010 at 10:23 am

    Hi Marius, have a look at the Fairtrade Foundation website for a full list of Fairtrade certified products: http://tinyurl.com/y9qhsvz

  3. Marius says:
    January 14, 2010 at 8:46 pm

    Fair trade sugar? I thought that only fair trade coffee was being regulated under fair trade rules? Wow..news to me!