Perfect for the holidays and for those who love sweets with rich and enveloping flavors! These mustaches are a delight to share, rich in hazelnuts and cocoa, decorated with a veil of dark chocolate!
Ingredients (for about 20 cookies)
250 g of flour 00
50 g of chopped hazelnuts noc
100 g of sugar
15 g of amaro cocoa
40 g of honey
100ml of warm water
3-4 g of pistachio (mixture of spices typical of mostaccioli, or mixture of cinnamon and cloves)
3 g of ammonia for sweets (use for leavening and flattering)
1 orange or lemon (grated slice)
A pinch of salt di
For decoration:
Dark chocolate (please, for dipping biscuits)
Preparation
Preparation of the dough:
In a bowl, mix the flour, sugar, sifted bitter cocoa, nutmeg, pisto, grated orange rind (or lemon), ammonia and a pinch of salt.
Adding the liquid ingredients:
Combine the honey and warm water to the dough and start mixing. Continue kneading until it gets a homogeneous compound, soft, but not sticky.
Rest of the money:
Cover the dough with cling film and let it rest in the refrigerator for at least 1 hour. This will help facilitate the repair of the dough.
Shape cookies:
Roll out the dough on a lightly floured baking sheet to a thickness of about 1 cm. Use a rhombus strainer to make cookie shapes.
Transfer them to a baking pan.
Cottura:
Bake in a static oven preheated to 175 ° C for 12-14 minutes. The cookies will be soft freshly baked, but they will harden when cooled, reaching the right texture.
Decoration:
Let the cookies cool completely.
In the meantime, melt the dark chocolate in a tub and dip each cookie in the melted chocolate.
Put cookies on a grill to cool. If you like, you can also use white chocolate for decoration!
Serving:
When the cookies are completely cool and the chocolate has solidified, your mustaches are ready to enjoy
Tips and variations
If you don’t have pisto on hand, you can substitute a mixture of cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg.
You can customize the decoration with hazelnuts or powdered sugar on top of the chocolate for an extra touch of sweetness.
These cookies will keep well for several days in a tin or airtight jar. Perfect for gifting or saving for the holidays!
