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Biscotti, Bread
and Breakfast

From Nonna's Chair to a Modern Kitchen

Now available on Amazon!

WHATS IN THE BOOK

Date Walnut

This luscious date and walnut confection has been a friend and family favorite in demand at our house for years. We will soon be offering limited amounts for sale to our customers in the San Francisco Bay Area.

 

A layer of soft pastry surrounds a toasted walnut stuffed Medjool date. The browned butter frosting is creamy, buttery and adds the perfect finish to a scrumptious treat.

 

Folks cut them in half to begin, because they are rich. And, then, the second half disappears quickly! LOL!

Five Spice Shortbread

If you are fan of Five Spice and Shortbread, here is a lovely combination in a soft buttery shortbread with a little of your favorite spice to tingle the taste buds.

 

Lovely ginger, cinnamon, cardamom, cloves, and star anise to add exotic flavor to a traditional cookie.

Italian Fig Cookies

Here’s a nice figgy treat to pack for a picnic, a buffet lunch, or just for the office!

 

A light, flaky pastry top and bottom encases a simple and smooth fig filling with a hint of orange and cinnamon.

 

This is a new one that is becoming one of our most popular.

Pignoli

Here is a no-flour and no-added-fat recipe that comes from a long line of Italian recipes.

 

Sweetened Almond paste and pine nuts form the basis of this chewy sweet.

Apricot Almond and Spice

A soft moist cookie with dried apricots, roasted almonds, a hint of five spice and a lovely almond flavored icing.

 

This is one of our newest cookies and is getting rave reviews so far!

Cuccidati

My Nonna’s Recipe.  Yes, I followed her around her ranch kitchen back in the 1950’s.  She had no measuring spoons or cups and my Nonno and Uncles would shell the walnuts and almonds from the orchard, dry the figs and prunes.  

 

They also were the ones who attached hand grinders to the large kitchen table and ground all the ingredients for my Nonna and aunts to make the filling. Today, we have more convenient devices, but, according to my family’s critique, I have “nailed Nonna’s Cuccidati!”

 

Soft and sweet; made with a filling of figs, dates, prunes, raisins, roasted walnuts, almonds, all ground with a little honey, imported Italian orange marmalade, brandy, cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg.

Cantucci

These crunchy twice-baked almond cookies look a little like what you may call “Biscotti.”  They are not so dry or hard, but still crunchy.  They are loaded with sliced roasted almonds (skin on!) lots of butter and a hint of organic fennel pollen.  Everyone finds them quite addicting, even non-Italians!

Italian Wedding Cookies

Soft, melt-in-your mouth, almond and butter cookies, they are similar, in some ways, to Mexican Wedding Cookies, Russian Tea Cakes, and Snowball Cookies.

These have equal amounts of butter and ground almonds, along with the flour and sugar and a hint of vanilla. Very popular with everyone.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Biscotti (Cookies)

 

Sicilian Chocolate and Spice Cookies……13

Almond/Coffee/Chocolate Cookies……15

Almond Meringue Cookies……16

Apricot Almond Spice Cookies……17

Lemon Biscotti……19

Cantucci…… 21

Chocolate Chip Orange Cookies…… 22

Little Orange Cinnamon Cookies…… 24

Apricot Pistachio Shortbread Cookies…… 26

Italian Wedding Cookies…… 28

Stuffed Date Cookies…… 29

Fig Cookies…… 31

Pignoli Cookies…… 34

Panettone Cookies…… 35

Ossi di Morti (Bones of the Dead)…… 37

Asian Spice Shortbread Cookies…… 41

Ricotta Cookies…… 42

Cuccidati…… 44

 

Breads, Biscuits and Bagels

 

Cinnamon Raisin and Rye Bagels…… P. 50

Savory Sourdough Biscuits…… 52

Grainy/Seedy Dinner Rolls…… 53

Sourdough Cinnamon Raisin Bread…… 55

Herby Overnight Focaccia…… 58

Pepper Cheese Bread…… 60

Panettone…… 62

 

Breakfast

 

Pear Frittata…… 66

Breakfast Burritos for the Freezer……67

Sourdough Biscuits…… 69

Pineapple Upside-Down French Toast……70

Overnight Sourdough Pancakes…… 72

Sourdough Peanut Butter Waffles…… 75

Veggie Frittata…… 76

Panettone French Toast…… 78

Pepper Cheese French Toast…… 80

 

Desserts

 

Almond Cake…… 84

Cannoli…… 86

My Nonna’s Cream Puffs…… 88

Make-Ahead Fruit Pie Filling…… 90

Orange Cloud Pie…… 93

Small Berry Crisp…… 95

Sicilian Orange Snacking Cake…… 96

Pumpkin Bars with Cinnamon Cream Frosting…… 98

Lemon Bundt Cake…… 100

Pumpkin Pecan Pie…… 102

Pistachio Cupcakes with Orange Cream Frosting…… 105

 

Party and Other Fun Food

 

Bourbon Balls…… 108

Bow Ties…… 109

Chocolate-Covered Macadamia Nuts…… 111

Graham Cracker Toffee…… 113

Panforte…… 114

Peanut Butter Cups…… 116

Rocky Road…… 118

Rum Balls…… 119

Sourdough Whole-grain Crackers…… 120

Holiday Spiced Pecans…… 122

 

Index……123

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