Bicerin Coffee and Hazelnut Tegole Biscotti

This is a rerun of Instagram to Table from Monday July 20th. We celebrated my home region of Piemonte with its traditional coffee drink, Bicerin, and my adoptive region of Valle d'Aosta, Aosta Valley, with their traditional hazelnut Tegole. The ingredients were simple: chocolate, hazelnuts, butter, sugar, cream, and a good Italian espresso. Watch the video for the recipe and for exploring a little bit more about these two beautiful Italian regions.

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Ingredients

Instructions

For the Bicerin Coffee
  1. In a small sauce pan, melt the chocolate, and when it’s melted add the milk and stir to create a smooth hot chocolate cream;
  2. hand-whip the cream wit the maple syrup. It doesn’t need to be fully whipped, just semi, and slightly thicker;
  3. Make the coffee (I used an old traditional Italian mocha)
  4. Choose a tall Irish Coffee or wine glass and start composing the dish by pouring the hot chocolate. If it has firmed top while preparing the cream, just heat it up again with a little more milk;
  5. Now our the coffee over the chocolate, and lastly the semi-whipped cream. Dust with unsweetened cocoa powder;
For the Tegole Cookies
  1. Pre-heat the oven to 350 F with convection on;
  2. in a mixing bowl, mix the flours, a pinch of salt, the sugar, and the butter previously softened at room temperature;
  3. Add the milk and remember you may have to add a bit more according to the flour. We want a semi-fluid dough, a very creamy one;
  4. on a baking sheet line with parchment paper or silicon, place a spoonful of dough and them spread it around in a circle (i did it with my hands) until you create a 4-inch very think circle. with this recipe you will have approximately 50 cookies.
  5. Bake for 15-20 minutes or until nicely browned;
  6. Allow to completely cool down and become crunchy. This a wafer-thin cookies that is supposed to be crispy.

Please do refer to video for details on preparation and tips, and also for historical references and for a beautiful chat.

In the Piemontese dialect, Bicerin means small glass. 

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