Back by popular demand: Chocolate Chip Espresso Biscotti! This weekend Husband and I are attending one of our favorite events of the year, a cookie open-house. Imagine hours of relaxing surrounded by plates and plates, platters, and pots full of every type of cookie imaginable…and then some, shooting the breeze with good friends, filling up on steaming coffee and warm sweet hot chocolate and lounging in the most comfortable chairs..and sometimes standing because there are so many great pals filling the room. This is bliss my friends, and so are my very very dear chocolate chip biscotti. I can’t get enough, seriously. Ever since the 1st batch I’ve mentioned baking them again at least once a week. Husband must be sick of it by now. Do yourself and your loved ones a favor this season. Get your mise en place and bake up a batch or two of these divine crunchy cookies this afternoon. Don’t wait!
Good chocolate cookies are hard to find. I´ve been jaded by too many chocolate cookies who had warm, dark rich exteriors but were missing chocolate flavor. Color does not always signify flavor in the chocolate cookie realm. Fortunately, this chocolate biscotti lives up to it´s appearance. There is absolutely nothing lacking in this cookie- it has a blow-me-away chocolate flavor with soft semi-sweet chips sprinkled throughout for an additional chocolate shock. Though the recipe calls for a tablespoon of coffee granules, there is not even a hint of mocha flavoring. Coffee subtly lends a hand bringing all the chocolate goodness to bay. These cookies are phenomenal with coffee, hot cocoa, and even alone. I´d even dare to say that they´d provide enough chocolate satisfaction to calm the chocolate cravings that keep me raiding my pantry ¨that time¨ each month.
Recipe loosely adapted from David Lebovitz2 c. flour
3/4 c. cocoa powder
1 t. baking soda
1/4 t. salt
3 eggs
1c.+2T. sugar
1 t. vanilla
1 t. coffee granules
1/2 c. chocolate chips of choice
- Preheat oven to 350F. Sift dry ingredients together.
- Beat eggs and sugar with coffee granules and extract. Stir in dry ingredients until well blended and then add chips.
- Divide into 3 logs and place on a parchment-lined baking sheet. Bake 25 minutes.
- Remove cookies from the oven, cool 10 minutes, and then slice on the diagonal into 1/2″ slices using a serrated knife. My cookies cracked and broke with serrated knife, but cut better with a large chef’s knife.
- Return cookies to oven to finish baking for 25 minutes. Cool. May be stored in airtight containers at room temperature for up to 2 weeks.
* Notice that these cookies have no butter or shortening– consider them a “light” holiday treat! I will.
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This looks super delicious! I love that it has a rich chocolate flavor. I to have been jaded by dark chocolate color and not a lot of chocolate flavor. I need to give these a try 🙂
Yummo! Your biscotti looks fantastic 🙂
I love a good biscotti with tea! No wonder you found your way to the raw honey giveaway on my site. Looks like you have quite a nose for sweets 🙂 Thanks for stopping by!
I love that it is “light” LOL they look amazing! I love biscotti and coffee!
Oh yum! These look fabulous. I too will consider them a light holiday treat & then I will devour them without guilt 😉 Thanks so much for linking up! It’s great to meet you!
<3 Ashley
Is there really any room for guilt during the holidays? 😉 Hope you love them. My pleasure to join you this week, Ashley!
Jelli I am SO excited for this. I’ve never made a biscotti and I have been holding out for the right recipe. This must be it!
Absolutely love your blog, so nice to meet you today! 🙂
Oh, Kristin if you’re looking for chunky, crisp, chocolate cookie bliss perfect for dunking, this is it. Honestly, this has been my favorite cookie since I first baked it a couple of years ago. Hope you try it. Thanks so much for visiting!
Thanks Jelli for joining up with together in the kitchen! These biscotti’s look amazing!! Big hugs xoxo
You’re welcome! I was really excited to come upon a foodie link-up that I hadn’t heard of before. Happy to join you!
This looks so good! Thanks so much for sharing at Heavenly Treats Sunday Link Party!
You’re super welcome, Pamela. These are hands down my favorite cookie. Have a great week!
Omg….everyone just loved them… This is my new go to biscotti cookie treat,when visiting friends…thanks so very much…uber good.
Yay! Steve, I’m so glad you liked them. These are still my favorite biscotti and coffee dunking cookies, even 3 years later!