Today, Francesca Morandin gives us an idea to brighten up our day with a mouth-watering recipe that is perfect for sweetening certain moments of the day, such as breakfast, afternoon tea or coffee and, why not, even a tasty after-dinner drink: Coffee biscuits.

To enrich your table with more sweet temptations, try one of my favourite biscuits: gluten free Canestrelli.

Coffee biscuits

51.28g carbohydrates per 100g

Ingredients

• 250g buckwheat flour mix, brand Petra 5**
• 120g butter
• 100g sugar
• 50g hazelnut flour* (or hazelnuts to be blended into flour)
• 40g milk chocolate with no added sugar*
• 10g sprouted buckwheat flour* (optional)
• 10g ground coffee
• 1 cup of espresso coffee
• 1 egg yolk
• a pinch of salt

**Ingredients specific for celiacs

*Ingredients whose labels must read “gluten-free” (or, in Italy, present on  Prontuario AIC)

Preparation

1. In a planetary mixer, whip the butter left at room temperature with the sugar. When the mixture is well whipped, add the ground coffee, egg yolk and espresso; mix everything together and only at the end add the buckwheat, hazelnut flour and sprouted buckwheat flour. Mix well and place in the refrigerator for a few hours.
2. Roll out the shortcrust pastry between two sheets of baking paper and cut the biscuits into the desired shape or, as in this case, form a ball and place it in a paper cup.
3. Bake in a static oven preheated to 175°C for 20 minutes.
   Meanwhile, melt the milk chocolate in a bain-marie, or in the microwave, and decorate just the tip of the biscuits.

Version with gluten of Coffee biscuits

Replace the Petra 5 flour with 280g cake wheat flour.