Here another sweet Italian recipe that is easy and delicious to try. Italian Coconut Biscuits with white chocolate inside. Try it at home!
ITALIAN COCONUT BISCUITS WITH WHITE CHOCOLATE
Prep time: 25 min
Baking time: 20 min
Portions: about 30
Ingredients:
250g Grated Coconut
100g white chocolate buttons
2 Eggs
90g Flour 00
80g Sugar
80g soft butter
5g Baking powder for cakes
Pinch of salt
Optional:
Icing sugar
Storage:
Keep the coconut biscuits for a week at the most.
Procedure:
- To prepare our coconut biscuits, chop the soft butter into pieces and add sugar into a bowl.
- Whisk the ingredients with the electric whisk and then add the eggs, one at a time.
- When you have obtained a homogeneous mixture, pour the sifted flour.
- Continue adding a pinch of salt and the coconut.
- Mix by hand.
- Finally add the yeast and mix the dough one last time.
- Now take a small portion of dough as big as a walnut and weighing about 20 g, make small balls with your hands.
- Then create a groove by pressing with your thumb at the center of the ball.
- Stuff with a chocolate button (or use a small bar of chocolate about 3 g) and wrap it back recreating the initial ball.
- You should get about 29-30 biscuits.
- Place them on a baking tray lined with parchment paper.
- Bake the biscuits in a preheated oven at 180 °C for 20 minutes.
- When baked, remove the biscuits, let them cool and then serve them with a sprinkling of icing sugar
Buon Appetito!