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Christmas Chocolate & cinnamon cantucci

This time last year my tiny studio turned into a mini biscuit factory. Like my aunts in Austria who bake tons of Christmas biscuits every year I like to carry on the tradition (maybe not as well and in smaller quantities). Unfortunately this year I just haven’t had the time to bake as much (slightly due to the fact that I’ve been baking about 500 biscuits a week at La Cocotte recently) so I came up with this easy but just as delicious recipe.

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I just want to say THANK YOU to all my readers. Your visits and comments are greatly appreciated (to say the least). I hope you all have a lovely Christmas and munch through lots of delicious dishes. I’ll be tucking into some mince pies and no doubt plenty of other scrummy English things when I get back to the UK.

Chocolate & cinnamon cantucci

240g flour
30g cocoa powder
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
165g sugar
100g dark chocolate, chopped in large chunks
100g hazelnuts
3 eggs
1 1/2 tsp cinnamon

Preheat the oven to 160°c. Sieve together flour, cocoa, baking powder and cinnamon. Whisk together eggs and sugar until foamy, add nuts and chopped chocolate followed by flour mixture. Combine, at the end you may need to knead the ingredients together. Divide dough into two parts. Roll each into a log shape. Bake for 35 minutes. Leave to cool and then cut into 5mm slices. Bake again at 160°c for about 15 minutes or until crispy.