Almond Biscotti and Sponge Fingers

So today in our practical we prepared Almond Biscotti & Sponge Fingers. We had to do the Almond Biscotti as a team and the Sponge Fingers separately. What my station partner, Sihle & I decided to do was he would make the Almond Biscotti & I will make 2 recipes of Sponge fingers to make it a quicker process & to avoid a lot of extra dishes.

So with the Almond Biscotti, you basically end up with a dough that you have to shape into a log about 6cm thick. You bake that log at 160 degrees Celsius for 30-40 minutes. Once baked, you remove it from the oven, slice diagonally about 12mm thick, then place the slices on a baking tray or sheet pan and put it back into the oven to bake until 135 degrees Celsius until toasted or golden brown. This process is basically to really dry out the Biscotti.

So below I just have some pictures of Sihle getting the dough to the correct consistency before he molds it into log shapes.

As for the Sponge Fingers, we had to make the mixture which was just eggs, castor sugar, cake flour and cornflour. The picture below just shows me almost done with the folding process. I had to fold the flour into the sugar and egg mixture.

As you can see there was still some flour on the side which I had to fold in. I was using a wooden spoon to fold in the flour. If you have done the folding in method before, it'll be really easy for you to see the 'lines'  that have been formed by folding in, especially straight through the middle. 

Once that was done, you had to put the mixture in a piping bag & pipe some 'log' shapes onto a baking tray and bake for 200 degrees Celsius. The time that it takes to bake depends if it's a lot of mixture in a mould or just piped like how I did - it took maximum 10 minutes in the oven for me. Once removed from the oven, you just sprinkle some castor sugar on top whilst the Sponge Fingers are hot!

So that's Almond Biscotti & Sponge Fingers!

& that's the final product! Sponge Fingers on the left & Almond Biscotti on the right. I sprinkled a bit of glitter on the sponge fingers just because, I felt like it. No harm in adding a lil bit of sparkle, right? 

Until next time, keep your life frosted! <3