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Chocolate Chip Teff Biscotti (Gluten-Free, Vegan)

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Grab your cup of coffee and a Chocolate Chip Teff Biscotti for a few moments of at-home bakery bliss! A gluten-free, nut-free, allergy-free, and vegan healthy recipe so you can enjoy this Italian classic once again without sacrificing flavor or crunch!

Chocolate Chip Teff Biscotti | Strength and Sunshine @RebeccaGF666 Grab your cup of coffee and a Chocolate Chip Teff Biscotti for a few moments of at-home bakery bliss! A gluten-free, nut-free, allergy-free, and vegan healthy recipe so you can enjoy this Italian classic once again without sacrificing flavor or crunch!

First off, is biscotti and cookie or a biscuit? According to Italian tradition, it’s defined as a biscuit or cracker. That also leads me to question if it’s considered a breakfast, brunch, dessert, or “tea time” item. I’m going to go with anytime where this is a hot cup of coffee or tea involved, a little crunchy biscotti is appropriate! It’s a little nuisancey but as long as we have a dry, crunchy, oblong semi-sweet…”thing” and that warm drink in hand…we can have a biscotti break. (Calling biscotti a cracker sounds so wrong in American sense…)

Chocolate Chip Teff Biscotti | Strength and Sunshine @RebeccaGF666 Grab your cup of coffee and a Chocolate Chip Teff Biscotti for a few moments of at-home bakery bliss! A gluten-free, nut-free, allergy-free, and vegan healthy recipe so you can enjoy this Italian classic once again without sacrificing flavor or crunch!

Biscotti brings to mind weird feelings and memories for me. I’m not sure how many (very few) times I’ve even had biscotti. I would never go forth and grab one of those dry sticks for the heck of it off the Italian cookie platter. They remind me of wealthy old people…and elementary school. Before you call me crazy just hold on a second and let me explain.

Chocolate Chip Teff Biscotti | Strength and Sunshine @RebeccaGF666 Grab your cup of coffee and a Chocolate Chip Teff Biscotti for a few moments of at-home bakery bliss! A gluten-free, nut-free, allergy-free, and vegan healthy recipe so you can enjoy this Italian classic once again without sacrificing flavor or crunch!

When I was younger, the most “fun” thing my friends and I liked to do in school was “clean our classroom”. Not even joking, when you are in the same classroom for those 6 hours with the same 20-35 kids and teacher, you find joy in the weirdest things. Your classroom becomes your “second home” so to speak. Whenever we had indoor recess or when we finished work/projects early, we could start organizing and cleaning the classroom. From books to shelves, the cubbies and color organizing the crayons, to even Windexing the windows and scrubbing down the desks.

Chocolate Chip Teff Biscotti | Strength and Sunshine @RebeccaGF666 Grab your cup of coffee and a Chocolate Chip Teff Biscotti for a few moments of at-home bakery bliss! A gluten-free, nut-free, allergy-free, and vegan healthy recipe so you can enjoy this Italian classic once again without sacrificing flavor or crunch!

All those markers, crayons, pencils, etc. were always stored in those old-school tin and metal butter cookie, or in this case “biscotti”, containers. It never failed and every year, every classroom, grade school teachers would use those old metal cookie tins for storage (not like they were given much of a classroom budget as we all know!) The earliest memories I have and the thing that always pops into my mind first when I think about biscotti is those metal cookie tins and cleaning/organizing my elementary school classroom.

Chocolate Chip Teff Biscotti | Strength and Sunshine @RebeccaGF666 Grab your cup of coffee and a Chocolate Chip Teff Biscotti for a few moments of at-home bakery bliss! A gluten-free, nut-free, allergy-free, and vegan healthy recipe so you can enjoy this Italian classic once again without sacrificing flavor or crunch!

You know, we actually used to fight each other to get to see who could be the first to ask the teacher if we could use our free time to “tidy up”? I guess school was that boring that cleaning was better 😛 But, really, does it take that long to do a word search puzzle with our 10 spelling words? I don’t think so! Those cookie tins, though….they were everywhere. Sadly, when you opened them, they were not filled with cookies, biscuits, or biscotti. They were filled with dried up Crayola markers and stubby crayons. So my dear biscotti memories come from 2nd grade, cookie tins filled with crayons, and my old teachers who supplied them (I mean really…who actually buys those tins of cookies anymore?)

Chocolate Chip Teff Biscotti | Strength and Sunshine @RebeccaGF666 Grab your cup of coffee and a Chocolate Chip Teff Biscotti for a few moments of at-home bakery bliss! A gluten-free, nut-free, allergy-free, and vegan healthy recipe so you can enjoy this Italian classic once again without sacrificing flavor or crunch!

I knew biscotti were not stubby crayons and wanted to make a gluten-free, vegan, and allergy-free version to finally try all these years later. Biscotti are meant to be dipped in a hot beverage due to the fact that they are “twice-baked” so they come out dry, crunchy, and crumbly, (like a cracker…but sweeter). In a sense, “stale sticks”. But wait! They taste good! I used some lovely light and delicately flavored teff flour which also added a nice lightly brown color. Of course, we had to make these biscotti with some chocolate too! Using my favorite allergy-free chocolate chips from Enjoy Life Foods, of course! Enjoy Life dark chocolate chips, a hint of vanilla extract, the teff flour, and your choice or tea or coffee. These will be a perfect gluten-free and allergy-free “biscuit” to add to that brunch cookie platter! If you bake them and put them in an old metal cookie tin to give to a loved one this holiday season, I’ll give you bonus points 😉

Chocolate Chip Teff Biscotti

 Chocolate Chip Teff Biscotti | Strength and Sunshine @RebeccaGF666 Grab your cup of coffee and a Chocolate Chip Teff Biscotti for a few moments of at-home bakery bliss! A gluten-free, nut-free, allergy-free, and vegan healthy recipe so you can enjoy this Italian classic once again without sacrificing flavor or crunch!

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Chocolate Chip Teff Biscotti

Grab your cup of coffee and a Chocolate Chip Teff Biscotti for a few moments of at-home bakery bliss! A gluten-free, nut-free, allergy-free, and vegan healthy recipe so you can enjoy this Italian classic once again without sacrificing flavor or crunch!

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Ingredients

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 375°F.
  2. In a large mixing bowl, combine all ingredients and mix until it forms a dough. Knead the dough with your hands when you can no longer mix.
  3. Now, form an 8-inch long flattened log with the dough (about 1/2-inch thick).
  4. Place the long on a Silpat or parchment paper lined baking sheet and bake for 10 minutes. Remove and let cool.
  5. Now, slice the log into about 10 biscotti slices and space them out a bit. Sprinkle with the chocolate sprinkles if desired.
  6. Place them back in the oven and bake for another 20 minutes. Remove and let cool completely before serving or storing in a closed tin.
  7. Remove

Nutrition

  • Serving Size: 1

 Chocolate Chip Teff Biscotti | Strength and Sunshine @RebeccaGF666 Grab your cup of coffee and a Chocolate Chip Teff Biscotti for a few moments of at-home bakery bliss! A gluten-free, nut-free, allergy-free, and vegan healthy recipe so you can enjoy this Italian classic once again without sacrificing flavor or crunch!

Double-baking them with periods of letting them cool off makes them perfectly crisp and crunchy as a biscotti should be! When dunked in a mug of coffee, I think you’ll be quite pleased! A Chocolate Chip Teff Biscotti break after a long day of cleaning the classroom sounds rather rewarding to me, don’t you think? I really do this gifting these up in a metal tin would make a perfect holiday treat, by the way. I was not joking about that suggestion!

So tell me:

+ Have you ever had biscotti?

+ Did you have a lot of free and down time in elementary school?

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Comments

  1. Luisa says

    I only have all purpose flour, does it make a difference which flour we use?
    And what can we substitute for stevia syrup?
    Thank you

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    • Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine says

      You can, but you’ll be sacrificing taste and the quality I created. I have not tested anything else.
      You can use any liquid sweetener, but it will need to be reduced.

      Reply

  5. Nikki Frank-Hamilton says

    I absolutely love the stories that you tell with the recipe. Your blog is one of my favorite food blogs because I not only get a great recipe, I get to know you better! Biscotti is one of my favorite things and I’ve really missed them with my morning coffee! Thanks for experimenting in the kitchen to bring back one of my most missed gluten filled treats! Merry Christmas to me!

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  8. kimmythevegan says

    I’ve never been a huge biscotti fan… probably because I’m not a huge fan of crunchy cookies and I don’t drink coffee and didn’t like to dunk them in my tea. BUT these bad boys are gluten free AND have chocolate chips. You may change my mind!

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  12. Amanda says

    First, I love the story with the tins. 🙂 Second…I love biscotti. They are perfect for hot chocolate dipping. These sound amazing. I haven’t used much teff flour before. My mom would so love these for Christmas! Now, third…down time in school. Up to 6th grade we had some time for lunch, maybe recess in the lower grades. Then we moved and I was homeschooled. Down time? LOL. It was 365 days a year. Always going, learning, doing something.

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    • Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine says

      Haha! Well if you did have downtime, you should have made biscotti at home 😉 You know….”home ec.” class 😉

      Reply

  14. Raia says

    Biscotti have been on my list for a while now. I tried them once when I first went gluten-free and failed miserably. I’ve been a tad nervous to give them a second chance since then. I think your recipe sounds easy enough, though. Plus, it’s chocolate chip… 😉

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    • Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine says

      Get some teff flour!!! You’ll love baking with it! Like a much lighter, less sticky buckwheat!

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  19. Vicki Montague says

    These look fabulous! I’ve never come across stevia syrup before…I’ll have to keep an eye out for that. Thanks for sharing the recipe…I love teff. In fact it is a key ingredient in my wholegrain gluten and rice free flour blend!

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  24. Bethany says

    The biscotti looks delicious, and I love your story to go along with it! My mom made biscotti occasionally when I was growing up, and I never liked it then. I do appreciate it now, though. 🙂

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  29. Shashi at RunninSrilankan says

    Rebecca, the biscotti with dark chocolate chips, a hint of vanilla extract, and teff flour would have been wonderful with my morning coffee! Awesome job making a GF version!
    Haha – I still use those cookie tins to store stuff – so here’s to finding joy in the wierdest things this season!
    🙂

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    • Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine says

      I’m glad you’re a cookie tin user 😉 I want to buy a tin (throw away the cookies) just for this storage!

      Reply

  31. Nico @ yumsome says

    These biscotti look lovely, and I love that they’re made with teff… I happen to have a load of it in my cupboard, that I use for injera!

    We used to have metal biscuit tins in our class too. And yes, I was one of those pupils who loved to organise the crayons and the books. No actual cleaning though! LOL!

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  33. Mandy says

    Haha!! I totally remember those empty metal tins in elementary school! Or I should say biscotti-less tins filled with crayons. My Mom actually used to make biscotti quite a bit when we were kids and I honestly couldn’t tell you the last time I had one. But after seeing this post, I want some with a big cup of tea ❤️ And chocolate chip biscotti…even better!! These look wonderful!

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    • Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine says

      Hahaha! They were just “one of those things” that stood the test a time! A staple of every childhood!
      I think you need to ship up some special biscotti soon 😉

      Reply

  36. Beth (OMG! Yummy) says

    I’ve heard a lot of great things about teff flour! these look terrific – it’s taken me a while to learn to love “stale” biscotti but now I am a fan — with a hot cup of coffee. Aaaahhhh.

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  45. Linda @ Veganosity says

    Haha! That’s a cute story. 🙂 I wouldn’t eat a biscotti from a tin because those are usually the break your teeth kind. 😉 As you know, I just posted a biscotti recipe on my blog. I need to make your chocolate cookies (yes, I call them cookies) to go with my cranberry pistachio version.

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  46. Sharon @ Bit of the Good Stuff says

    I don’t know why I don’t eat biscotti all year round but, for some reason, I’ve always associated it with Christmas! I’ve been meaning to try teff flour for ages, and this looks like the perfect recipe to use it in. It’ll be a lovely treat to share with my GF friends. Thanks for the recipe! xx

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