Cantuccini a la Chocolat with or without goji berries & cocoa

  • Vegetarian

Preparation time: 75 minutes - Difficulty level: easy

Ingredients for a total of approx. 80 pieces:
- 80 g dark chocolate min. 85 % cocoa
- 120 g butter in pieces at room temperature
- 150 g coconut blossom sugar
- 3 eggs
- 350 g spelt flour Typr 650
- 1 tsp baking soda or baking powder
- 10 g milk
- ½ tsp salt
- 50 g cocoa
- 180 g unroasted pistachios, unsalted
- 2 tbsp raw cane sugar for rolling out
- For the variant with the goji berries, halve the dough and add 4 tbsp goji berries to one half.

Cantuccini a la Chocolat with goji berries & cocoa

We have slightly modified the taste of Italy's popular and traditional almond cookies for dessert or coffee and present you with a crispy version with chocolate and goji berries to bake.

Preparation:

Preheat the oven to 185 degrees top/bottom heat

Chop the chocolate into very fine pieces using a food processor or kitchen knife.
Place the butter, sugar and eggs in a mixing bowl and beat with a kitchen mixer until fluffy. Then add the remaining ingredients, except for the chocolate and pistachios.

Work everything into a smooth dough and continue to knead with your hands. Work in the pistachios and chocolate chips.

Overall, the dough will be a little sticky.

Cantuccini a la Chocolat with goji berries

Cantuccini a la Chocolat with espresso

Place the dough in the fridge for at least an hour and then divide it into five equal pieces. Roll these out one after the other between 2 layers of baking paper and then shape them from the longer side into rolls of the same size.

For the goji berry version, spread 2 tbsp of berries on each of 2 pieces of rolled out dough before shaping them into rolls. Roll the rolls in sugar and place on a baking tray lined with baking paper. Bake for approx. 15 minutes at 185 degrees top/bottom heat on the middle shelf.

After baking, leave the rolls to cool for 5-10 minutes and then cut diagonally into strips approx. 1 cm wide using a bread knife.

Be careful that they don't break apart as they are still soft. Do not press the knife - just cut.

Place them with the cut surface back on the baking tray and bake again at 175 degrees for approx. 10-12 minutes under supervision. Depending on the oven, they may get too dark.

Cantuccini close-up

Cantuccini in shell

Enjoy them with our Ethiopian Coffee, for example.