The giveaway is now closed, but enjoy the recipe! 🙂
I’m sure a lot of you are just as crazy about chocolate as I am! I especially like dark chocolate. And I love all kinds of chocolate treats. So when I heard about the new book Crazy About Chocolate by Krystina Castella, I was definitely interested in reviewing it!
This softcover book has more than 200 sweet and savory chocolate recipes, with lots of full-color photos.There are recipes for cupcakes and many other desserts, candies, and holiday sweets, along with some unique savory items (like Hamburger Sliders with Chocolate Rolls!). It’s a great cookbook for any chocolate-lover!
I decided to try the recipe for Triple Chocolate Biscotti, because I love dunking biscotti in coffee and hot cocoa in the chilly weather months. And biscotti makes a great homemade food gift. Besides that, I hadn’t ever made my own biscotti, and I decided it was definitely time!
This biscotti is very yummy and chocolatey—it has a chocolate dough with chocolate chips and, after baking, is topped with a drizzle of even more chocolate. I knew I would love it! It has a rich chocolate taste and is the perfect treat when you’re taking a little coffee break.
Triple Chocolate Biscotti
TRIPLE CHOCOLATE BISCOTTI from Crazy About Chocolate
Makes about 24 cookies
These low-fat chocolate biscotti contain no butter and are drizzled with chocolate.
1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
1/3 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup natural unsweetened cocoa powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
3 large eggs
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
6 ounces milk chocolate, chopped (I used a little more—about 9 ounces)
Preheat oven to 300˚F. Butter two cookie sheets.
Combine the flour, sugar, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt in a medium bowl, and set aside.
In a medium mixing bowl, beat the eggs and vanilla. Stir in the chocolate chips. Add the flour mixture and mix until blended (the dough is very thick; I finished working in all the ingredients with my hands).
Divide the dough in half and shape into two logs that are 3/4 inch thick, 1 1/2 inches wide, and 6 inches long (mine were more like 3″ wide—but I recommend making your logs longer instead of wider if you have extra dough, because they’ll be easier to slice and you’ll get more biscotti!). Place on the cookie sheets at least 2 inches apart.
Bake at 300˚F for 50 minutes, remove from oven, and let cool for 5 minutes (this biscotti gets pretty crispy, and was a little hard to slice because of that, so you may want to try just baking for 40 to 45 minutes). Using a serrated knife, slice into 1/2-inch-thick cookies. Lay the cookies flat on the baking sheet and bake for 10 minutes.
Flip cookies over and then bake for 10 more minutes. Transfer to a rack to cook completely.
Melt the milk chocolate in the top of a double boiler set over simmering water. Dip the bottom of each cookie into the chocolate. Set on a rack with the chocolate side facing up to dry. Once all the cookies are dry, place them with their tops facing up and drizzle melted chocolate on top.
Let the chocolate set before serving, then grab a cup of coffee and enjoy your biscotti! 🙂
Recipe used with permission | nancy-c.com
THE GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED!
Now for the Giveaway…if you’d like to enter to win a copy of Crazy About Chocolate, leave a comment on this blog post between now and Monday, December 2, 2013 at 10 p.m. (CST)—the random drawing will be made from the comments on this post only! The winner will be chosen randomly via Random.org and announced on Tuesday, December 3. Winner will be notified via email (if winner does not respond in 3 days, I’ll do another drawing). Giveaway is limited to readers in the Continental U.S. and Canada.
First entry: Leave a comment on this post–it would be great to hear what your favorite chocolate treat is!
Bonus entry: If you are a new or existing follower or subscriber, you can leave one extra comment telling me the way (or ways) you are following.
Note: If your comment doesn’t show up right away, don’t worry–I have to approve all comments because of spam, so it may take a little while to show up!
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NancyC 
50 responses to “Triple Chocolate Biscotti from Crazy About Chocolate and a Giveaway!”
Everything that is about chocolate interests me a LOT! I cannot live without chocolate and brigadeiro! ❤
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Marieli, I have not forgotten about your recipe–I hope to make it sometime before Christmas–I’ll let you know!
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You are so sweet!! 🙂
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I still have not made it yet, but I’m shooting for Valentine’s Day–I think it would make a nice Valentine sweet treat! 🙂
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Definitely entering the giveaway! I’m as crazy about chocolate as you are. Thanks for the biscotti recipe, Nancy. They look totally scrumptious! xoxo, Angie.
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Please enter my name for the Crazy About Chocolate cookbook. Sounds like a must have. My favorite is my triple chocolate layer cake. It’s a really big deal.
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These are wonderfull!
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I follow your blog on phone. I look forward to every entry. They are very helpful and so yummy. It makes it easy to have a variety in our meals.
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The description on Amazon mentions a Cocoa-Spiced Turkey Chili. I sure could use that for all our Thanksgiving leftovers! Yum.
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My favorite chocolate treat is German choc cake loaded with extra pecans and coconut, or maybe a cup of homemade hot steamy cocoa on a winter day, or maybe brownies, or maybe just a handful of semisweet chips!
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for my 2nd comment, I have followed NancyCreative for quite some time!
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I love anything and everything that involved DARK chocolate. YUM!
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I get your emails delivered to my inbox. =)
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Fantastic recipes are always appreciated – I love any good sounding recipe to try! Thank you for all your recipes – you are Yummly certified with me!
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It’s hard to pick just one, but I guess my all time favorite chocolate treat are fudge brownies!
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I’m a chocolate lover too! It’s hard to choose a favorite but I have a Chocolate fudge cake recipe that I love and I also really like old fashioned chocolate cake donuts.
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Right now, I can’t quit thinking about fudge. That’s my favorite chocolate treat at this time of year.
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I love brownies.
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Chocolate is a huge part of my family. My whole life my mom has had a small side business of selling gourmet chocolates. She makes several varieties, my favorite is Melba’s. It is a brown sugar fondant, dipped in chocolate and rolled in crushed pecan’s. I could solely live on these. Chocolate is such a huge passion of mine that was instilled at me at a very young age, not only chocolate but nice high quality chocolate. I would love to be able to follow in my mom’s footsteps with her chocolate business. That was probably way more than what you all wanted 🙂
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Hi, I thoroughly enjoy and appreciate the hard work you put into this blog. I follow you through email. and I have followed you for several months now. Thank you 🙂
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Please enter my name for the Crazy about Chocolate Cookbook! I love your blog! My favorite chocolate is still chocolate sheet cake. Thanks so much!
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Thank you so much for sharing! I enjoy following your blog via email and I have been looking for an easy “chocolate” biscotti recipe… this one looks wonderful. Chocolate cake donuts are a yummy treat to me!! 🙂
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I LOVE all things chocolate, especially brownies
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I love maple chocolates.
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I check your blog every day and have followed you for a long time. I make quite a few of your recipes for my B&B breakfasts and they always get great reviews from our guests.
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I get emails whenever you post a new update. I love reading about food and deciding if my boys, 3 against 1 :-), will eat it.
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Please enter my name for the give-away. I make a lot of various kinds of chocolate goodies this time of year and I sure am on the look-out for new ideas. Sure appreciate all that you put into your blog, its great!
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I follow you by e mail as well
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I love chocolate chip cheesecake the most. Thanks for the chance to enter.
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I am an email subscriber of yours. Thanks for the chance to enter.
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My favorite chocolate treats are dark chocolate covered almonds and chocolate almond biscotti. This recipe is right down my alley. Thanks for the chance to win.
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I’m an email subscriber.
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It’s too hard to pick a favorite! But, one of them is my homemade bittersweet chocolate truffles.
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My favorite is Devil’s Food Cake with a dark chocolate ganache.
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This is a great recipe and you’ve probably got your chocoholic subscribers the world over drooling right now. I know because I’m one of them. 🙂
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My favorite chocolate recipe???? I don’t think I can choose. My husband also loves it That makes for good sharing
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Amazing! I wanted to find a Biscotti recipe to make for an upcoming gathering. Decided to check out Nancy Creative and voila! There it is! I have been meaning to make Biscotti for years, so i am looking forward to this. Hope mine look as pretty as yours.
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That IS amazing, Trish! 🙂 Hope you like it! I want to try some other biscotti recipes now that I “know the ropes.” 🙂
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My company used to serve double chocolate biscotti and I miss them. I can’t wait to make my own!
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Oh, yum… yummy!! The biscotti are absolutely beautiful. What a lovely cookbook! I have to say that if I’m craving chocolate, it’s usually the chocolate fudge frosting that I put on yellow cupcakes. My most favorite. ❤
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These biscotti look moist and chocolate-y! I’m going to try it for the holidays.
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The picture on the front of that cookbook is fantastic! YUMMY! I’d love to win!
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I subscribe to your newsletter via e-mail.
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I love chocolate truffles with creamy fillings! Thanks so much for sharing this book. The recipes sound divine!
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I am an email subscriber! 🙂
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Hey, I AM crazy about chocolate! I also think you do a wonderful job on your blog. Plus, I may possibly be your only male reader, so pick me! : )
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Ha! Thanks, RM! 🙂
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Mmmmmm who could resist!
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I am a faithful follower by email and have tried several of your recipes….none have disappointed! : )
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Wow, great biscotti recipe Nancy. I can go for a cup of coffee right now so I can dunk these into it. Delicious!
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