Cacao Biscuits

This is a delicious Italian recipe: cacao biscuits made of macaroons and cacao. This recipe is very simple and easy to realize in order to obtain biscuits ideal for a good Italian breakfast, in particular they are perfect dipped in a cup of milk. Italian breakfast is completely different from breakfast of the other country; indeed typical ingredients of Italian breakfast are milk with coffee, biscuits, assorted jams, bread rolls, brioches and cornetti with or without filling of cream or jam.

INGREDIENTS (for 6 people)
250 g of Flour
120 g of Sugar
80 g of Butter
40 g of Cacao
1 Egg
30 ml of Milk
8 g of Baking powder
5-6 Crumbled macaroons

PREPARATION TIME: 15 minutes

COOKING TIME: 10 – 15 minutes

PREPARATION
Preheat the oven to 150°C. In a bowl place the sugar and the butter, mix them until you obtain a kind of cream.

Now add the egg, the crumbled macaroons, the cacao and the milk and mix all together.

At the end add the flour and the backing powder and mix in order to obtain soft dough.

On a floured board with the help of a rolling pin roll out the dough 1 cm thick and cut biscuits as shown in the figure below.

Place the biscuits on a baking pan and bake for 10 – 12 minutes.

This the result:

BUON APPETITO!