CANTUCCI (Biscuits from Prato)
1350 g sugar [3 lb]
650 g almonds [1.433 lb]
550 g eggs [1.213 lb]
80 g milk powder [0.176 lb]
1500 g Flour [3.307 lb]
17 g Baking [0.037 lb]
Vanilla extract
Salt
Essence of Anise
Preparation

Mix the ingredients in a container until you get an even mix.

Form strands to be glossed with an egg to give color to the biscuits.

Put everything on baking paper and bake for 20 minutes at 200 degrees [392 f]. (It should be baked in a preheated oven already at temperature and avoid opening it until done.)

Remove from the oven and with a wet knife cut the hot strands at an angle of about 30 degrees every centimeter.


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The second stopping place of our trip in the confectioners’ shop is in Tuscany in the city of the Palio (Yes Siena).

Clicking on the above images you can see the fantastic sweets produced only in this city:

panforte (here you can find the recipe), cantucci (a cookie with almonds), ricciarelli (a white cookie with almonds pastry) and other delicious cookies.

First a littel baker’s shop transformed with the time in a confectioner’s shop.

Second the most famous bar in the city, the Nannini shop with its stained windows-shop:



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