Ciao Biscotti: Sweet and Savory Recipes for Celebrating Italy's Favorite Cookie

by Domenica Marchetti, Antonis Achilleos (Photographer)

“Filled with classic recipes, creative innovations . . . The world of twice-baked sweets might seem challenging to new bakers, but Marchetti is a good coach.” —Chicago TribuneCiao Biscotti is a collection of forty-four authentic biscotti from Italian cooking expert Domenica Marchetti. Studded with nuts, adorned with chocolate, or dotted with dried fruit, biscotti, Italy’s unique twice-baked cookies have a crunchy, toasty, enduring appeal. Perfect for dunking into coffee, tea, or Vin Santo, they’re easy to make; and transform a simple bowl of ice cream or sorbet into a special dessert. With savory ingredients swapped for the sweet ones, biscotti are a delicious accent to a cheese platter. Nibble on traditional flavors such as Hazelnut or Anise, coffeehouse neo-classics like Christmas Cranberry-Pistachio, tempting new versions such as Browned Butter and Toblerone, or savory ones, including Mountain Gorgonzola and Walnut, and taste the perfection of a classic cookie. Ciao biscotti!“Will keep biscotti lovers happy for a very long time . . . Some of the old classics are here, like almond or anise biscotti, but she’s also included some recipes for some not-so-traditional ones like browned butter and Toblerone.” —Ciao Chow Linda“You’ll find yourself turning out batch after batch of these twice-baked delights in your own kitchen . . . packed with tips on technique and ingredients, and clear recipes make the baking easy.” —L’Italo Americano

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking, Nonfiction

221 pages, Kindle Edition

First published February 24, 2015

Reviews

[Sandra Noel · Rating 5 out of 5]

My family is a huge fan of biscotti. We adore Italian food, and biscotti is quintessential Italian. I, personally, don't have a huge sweet tooth, so was thrilled to see savory versions as well. Go with a classic almond or hazelnut, branch out with some chocolate-almond with pistachios, stracciatella, coconut-lime, cappuccino or even crispy pancetta, almond and aged asiago or cornmeal with rosemary and parmigiano! A few non-biscotti recipes are included as well such as hazelnut meringues and nutella sandwich cookies.

Ciao Biscotti is a great cookbook for lovers of biscotti everywhere. Such a lovely variety of flavors and easy-to-read instructions combine with lovely photos to create a lovely little cookbook that I highly recommend.

I received a copy of this book from Chronicle Books for my honest review. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

[Julie H. Ernstein · Rating 3 out of 5]

I am keen to expand beyond my single serviceable almond biscotti recipe, so when I came across this book devoted entirely to biscotti I knew I needed to snap it up. Coming soon to a Silpat near me will be iced triple lemon biscotti, cranberry-pistachio biscotti, spiced and iced ginger biscotti, cardamom-pecan biscotti, orange and pistachio biscotti, chocolate-ginger biscotti. In addition, I will be baking the pistachio amaretti cookies because they look delicious and quite straightforward. While I cannot guarantee that staff meetings will be interesting, I can guarantee that there will be baked goodies. Thanks, Ms. Marchetti!

[Holly · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is adorable. The fonts are adorable. The patterns decorating the pages are adorable. The whimsical arrangements of biscotti in the pictures are adorable. The cookies sound super tasty but I'm probably not going to make any of these because nuts are super expensive right now, but all in all, ADORABLE.

[Regina Mascia · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great biscotti recipes!!

[Amy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Every recipe was good.

[False · Rating 3 out of 5]

All about making biscotti. I wasn't able to test any of the recipes. I want to go back to this book at another time.