Breakfast Biscuits
(“Biscotti di Pasta Frolla” – “Viscuotta all’Arancio”)
The cookies made with Italian shortbread that is called pasta frolla, are year around favorite breakfast cookies for children of all ages!...
This crispy and crumbling cookie associate well with milk for the young and is a preferred companion to coffee for the ... other generations.
The aroma of orange and the taste of butter come together making these cookies so tempting and very hard to stop eating them.
We suggest to shape the cookies in the shape of a short breadstick, but the cookies could be shaped round, square, or in any shape and decorated with cherries, colored sprinkles, etc..
Ingredients
- 5 cups sifted flour
- 3/4 cup sugar
- ½ lb. unsalted butter (at room temperature)
- 2 medium eggs
- ½ teaspoon of baking powder
- Pinch of salt
- 2 tablespoons of honey
- zest of ½ orange
- 1 egg for egg washing
- 1 cup of flour for dusting and adding extra
The Dough
Make a well with the flour, place in it and combine sugar and butter.
Add eggs, salt, baking powder, honey, and orange zest. Mix all ingredients with the help of a fork and then using your hands knead to bring dough together. If mixture is too dry add a few tablespoons of water, if too watery add some flour.
Do not over mix. Do not handle dough more than necessary. Refrigerate dough for 1 hour.
Prepare pan: grease and dust with flour a cookie sheet.
The Biscuits
Cut dough in 4 pieces and each pieces in 2 parts. Knead dough to make each piece compact and shape each part into 1 ½ inch roll. Cut it into pieces ( about 9 ) to form small sticks about 4 inches long and ½ inch thick, place each piece into greased pans 2 inches apart.
The Baking
Beat 1 egg, adding 1 tablespoon of water for the egg wash.
With the help of a brush go over cookies with the egg wash and bake at 350 degrees for 15 to 20 minutes or until cookies are a golden color.
