Spice Cantuccini

AUTHOR
Kristopher Marks
DIFFICULTY
easy
RATING
3 4
COOK TIME
90 mins
TOTAL TIME
90 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 80
  • 50 g red cherries
  • 250 g Flour
  • 1 Polvere da forno Tsp rivestita
  • 175 g Sugar
  • 1 package Vanilla sugar
  • 2 TEASPOONS Spekulatius spice - salt
  • 30 g soft butter
  • 2 Eggs (Gr. M)
  • 60 g Almond slivers
  • 50 g Raisins
  • 200 g Dark chocolate coating
  • baking paper

Directions

  1. 1

    Roughly chop the cherries. Mix flour, baking powder, sugar, vanilla sugar, speculoos spice and 1 pinch of salt. Add butter and eggs. Mix with the whisk of the mixer. Add cherries, almonds and raisins.

  2. 2

    Knead into a dough with your hands. Cover and chill for about 30 minutes.

  3. 3

    Preheat oven (electric cooker: 175 °C/circulating air: 150 °C/gas: see manufacturer). Line a baking tray with baking paper. Quarter the dough and form each into a roll (approx. 15 cm long). Place on the baking tray with a little space between them.

  4. 4

    Bake in a hot oven for about 15 minutes. Let them cool down.

  5. 5

    Line two trays with baking paper. Cut each roll into about 20 thin slices. Distribute on the trays. Bake one after the other at the same temperature for about 8 minutes. Take out and pull off the baking tray together with the paper.

  6. 6

    Let it cool down.

  7. 7

    Chop the couverture and melt in a hot water bath. Dip half of each Cantuccini in the couverture and let it dry.