Double Dark-Chocolate and Ginger Biscotti

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These are pretty good biscotti. I got the recipe from Whole Living, and they have a whole bunch of slide shows about low calorie snacks, and stuff like that. They advertise these as 84 calories each, and I was like alright! I can bring something sweet for afternoons at work. The recipe says it makes 2.5 dozen. I consider the ones I made a nice size, not too small, just a good little treat. I got 1.3 dozen. There's no way I could have made 12 more cookies! They would have been so tiny as to be....insulting. Now I see where the 84 calories comes in.

1 cup all purpose flour, spooned and levelled
1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1.5 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
1 large egg, plus 1 large egg yolk
1/2 cup sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/4 cup canola oil
1/2 cup walnuts, coarsely chopped (did not have)
3 ounces dark chocolate, coarsely chopped (1/2 cup)
1/4 cup finely chopped crystallized ginger

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a large baking sheet with parchment paper.
2. In medium bowl, whisk together flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, and salt until well combined; set aside. In larger bowl, beat egg, egg yolk and sugar until light and fluffy; beat in the vanilla and oil until well combined.
3. With the mixer on low, beat in dry ingredients until combined. Fold in walnuts, chocolate, ginger, with a rubber spatula (dough will be stiff).
4. With moistened hands, shape the dough into 2 logs, each about 9 inches long and 2.5 inches wide. Bake until set on top, about 20 minutes. Cool 10 minutes in pan. Reduce oven temperature to 325.
5. Transfer logs to cutting board and, with a serrated knife, cut each log on the diagonal into 16 slices, each 1/2 inch thick (whatever). Bake until crisp about 20 minutes, turning the biscotti over halfway through. Cool 5 minutes on a baking sheet, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely. Store in an airtight container for up to a week.

Comments

  1. PopRocketMarch 27, 2012 at 9:36 AM

    Give them a day, and they are really good. They just need to settle into themselves a bit.

    Also did a bit of math and if you are to make 28 of them and they are 84 calories, then they should be 147 calories if you make 16 of them. Minus about 27 calories for the walnuts I did not put in, and you get about 122 calories per biscotti. Which is still quite low.

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