Homemade hazelnut cantucci

• Preparation time: 10 minutes 
• Cooking time: 20 minutes 
• difficulty: Bassa

How to make hazelnut cantucci

Excellent for breakfast, but also as a dessert at the end of a tasty dinner, perhaps accompanied by a touch of Vin Santo. cantucci with hazelnuts They are a simple dessert to prepare at home, in a genuine way, and very suitable for the Non sprecare kitchen menus.

Furthermore, cantucci allow you to appreciate and take advantage of the many properties of hazelnuts: energetic, ready to help the digestion and the intestinal system, precious in the fight against cholesterol, thanks to the oleic acid they contain.

Ingredients (for about 40 cantucci)

• 250 00 grams of flour
• 200 gr of brown sugar
• 150 gr of whole hazelnuts
• 2 eggs
• Spoonful of milk
• 1 teaspoon baking powder

Preparation

• Combine the sugar and eggs in a bowl and mix well with a whisk. Sift the flour with the baking powder and add it to the egg mixture. sugar.
• Toast the whole hazelnuts, let them cool slightly, and add them to the mixture. If the mixture is too firm, soften it with a few drops of milk: it must be soft enough to be worked by hand.
• Make two long loaves about 1 cm thick and place them on the baking tray and bake at 180° C for about 20 minutes.
• Remove them, let them cool and cut the loaves into slices holding the knife diagonally. Bake the cookies for three minutes, turn them over and bake for another 3 minutes.

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