Italian cookies almost Cantucci

Don't know what it is? Take a quick look). Very tasty, although high-calorie cookies. Cantucci is a sweet crunchy biscuit-crackers, which is served with coffee or sweet wine. I did not dry the cookies in the oven again, as it turned out to be quite dry.
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Composition / ingredients

servings:
Translation table of volumetric measures
Nutrients and energy value of the recipe composition
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 13 % 10 g
Fats 25 % 19 g
Carbohydrates 61 % 46 g
389 kcal
GI: 23 / 2 / 74

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 1 h
  1. Step 1:

    Step 1.

    Products that were used in the preparation of cookies.

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2.

    In a bowl, sift the flour, extinguish the soda with vinegar. Beat in the eggs one by one and knead the dough. Add softened butter, sugar, vanilla, a pinch of salt and mix everything well.

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3.

    Add honey and mix well again.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4.

    Add almonds and knead the dough until it becomes elastic. For convenience, you can sprinkle your hands with flour. The dough is very dense and almonds are always trying to "fall out" of the dough, but don't let it bother you.

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5.

    Cut the pre-soaked dried fruits (if they are very hard) into sufficiently small pieces.

  6. Step 6:

    Step 6.

    Continuing to knead the dough, add dried fruits to it, adding flour as needed.

  7. Step 7:

    Step 7.

    Divide the dough into several parts and roll them into sausages.

  8. Step 8:

    Step 8.

    Cut the sausages into pieces about 4-5 cm long .

  9. Step 9:

    Step 9.

    Put them on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Grease with beaten egg.Bake at 180 * 25-30 minutes.

  10. Step 10:

    Step 10.

    Cookies, almost "cantucci" ready. You can drink coffee.

If you are not lazy and hold the cookies in the oven a little longer (another 7-10 minutes), you will get almost a real "cantucci". Why is it almost real in Tuscany.

Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish

  • Honey - 400   kcal/100g
  • Almonds nuts - 609   kcal/100g
  • Granulated sugar - 398   kcal/100g
  • Sugar - 398   kcal/100g
  • Butter 82% - 734   kcal/100g
  • Amateur unsalted butter - 709   kcal/100g
  • Unsalted peasant butter - 661   kcal/100g
  • Peasant salted butter - 652   kcal/100g
  • Melted butter - 869   kcal/100g
  • Dried apricots - 215   kcal/100g
  • Uryuk - 290   kcal/100g
  • Dried peaches - 254   kcal/100g
  • Prunes - 227   kcal/100g
  • Wheat flour - 325   kcal/100g
  • Baking soda - 0   kcal/100g
  • Vanilla sugar - 379   kcal/100g
  • Chicken egg - 80   kcal/100g
  • Table salt - 0   kcal/100g

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