When it comes to chocolate, the darker the better in my opinion. I have used 80% cocoa solids for my chocolate biscotti. These make them slightly bitter, which I love.
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My first smartphone was worlds away from what is currently the norm. But, at the time it was ahead of its game. I moved from the Omnia to BlackBerry, before migrating to iPhones. However, my UK phone was an old Sony Dave was no longer using. And I found it so frustrating. In fact, it is the reason I chose to go with an Apple product rather than Android when BlackBerry stopped being supported by App updates. Yesterday our unskilled labourer asked me for help with his Samsung phone. WhatsApp needed updating but no matter how often I clicked the update button, it did not work. There was an indication that the update downloaded, but that was it. Eventually I uninstalled the App and decided to start from scratch. When I looked for Google Play, the App was not there.
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Whom ever had set up his phone for him had disabled the App. Probably because they used their login. I attempted to use mine, but could not associate his device with my Google account. So then I create his own Google account, enabled Google Play and downloaded WhatsApp. At the same time, I updated his software while the phone was connected to the work WiFi. I found the entire process tedious, and not as simple as my iPhone. And once again I was reminded why I do not like Android phones. But I know people who have them who say the same about Apple phones. Are you an android or iPhone user?
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Chocolate Biscuits
Ingredients
- 200 g flour, plus extra for dusting
- 66 g erythritol
- 33 g coconut sugar
- 5 mls baking powder
- 2 eggs, lightly beaten
- 90 g dark chocolate, roughly chopped
Method
- Preheat the oven to 180° Celsius
- Place the flour, xylitol, sugar and baking powder into a mixing bowl and whisk to combine
- Slowly pour in the eggs while you mix the ingredients together
- Once a dough forms, add the chocolate and mix in
- Tip the dough out onto a lightly floured surface and knead until smooth
- Roll to form a sausage shape then flatten to be 5cm wide and 3cm high
- Place onto a lined baking tray, place into the oven and bake for 30 minutes
- Remove from the oven and leave on the tray to cool for 15 minutes
- Reduce the oven temperature to 160° Celsius
- Remove the biscuit log from the tray, trim the ends and cut into 2cm thick slices
- Place each slice cut side up onto the baking tray and place back into the oven
- Bake for 15 minutes, flip the biscuits over then bake for another 15 minutes before removing the tray from the oven
- Place the biscuits onto a wire rack until completely cool
- Store in an airtight container
This is my first submission to the 2023 “EXPRESS YOURSELF” GREAT BLOGGERS’ BAKE OFF.
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Oh, you will believe the chocolate part of the response -eat a fair amount of 70% dark chocolate but hardly ever use it in cooking. The bikkies do look moreish tho’ ! You may not believe I have a 7-year-old Samsung android tucked away in a drawer for ’emergencies . . . I also have two big beautiful landline phones – one in the library, one next to my bed – no charging, no misplacing, no fiddly small letters and I LOVE the archaic comfortable situation !!!
Dave has his beloved Android hiding in a desk as well!
I’m with you on dark chocolate
Good to know!
Hi Tandy, it was nice of you to go to so much trouble to sort out your employees phone. I wouldn’t have know what to do. A great recipe 🌹
Thank you Robbie 🙂
Oh fabulous. I’ve never made biscotti with actual chocolate. I thought it would melt all over, but it obviously doesn’t!!!
This chocolate did not melt which was perfect 🙂
Haha exactly! I’m an android user. Always been. And when some time ago I got apple as my work cell (no choices – that was our work policy to use only apple), I did hate it. I had been using it for nearly two years – luckily extremely rarely – and I never could get accustomed to its “bizzare” (to me) interface and functionality.
And the biscottis look delicious!
I feel that way about Android haha 🙂
Great! without butter.
thank you!
Your biscotti looks amazing and I love the dark chocolate chunks in it. One can never go wrong with chocolate.
Indeed!
years ago i had a Nokia and changed to apple. Hubby has a samsung which i hate using (I never do if i can help it). I hate Apple too but i find it a bit easier than android phones. They all suck really. I like to use 70% chocolate in my cooking; love the bitterness.
I loved my trusty Nokia that worked even after falling into a toilet!