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Cantucci

Name: Cantucci
Prep time: 38 min
Cook time: 40 min
Total time: 1 h 18 min
Yield: 1 cantucci
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 100 g whole almonds; 200 g flour; 90 g caster sugar; 10 g vanilla sugar; 1 tablespoon honey; 2 eggs; 6 g baking powder; 2 pinches salt; ½ lemon; ½ orange

Cantuccini, or cantucci, are those little golden, ultra-crisp Italian cookies from Tuscany, filled with whole roasted almonds, and with that rustic yet gourmet taste found in Italian cuisine.
This is a biscuit in the truest sense of the word, as it will be baked 2 times.

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1 hour 20 min. difficulté

Easy

2.75 €

1 cantucci

10 Ingredients

Last modified on: January 4^th 2026

For 1 cantucci, you will need:

1 100 g whole almonds
2 200 g flour
3 90 g caster sugar
4 10 g vanilla sugar
5 1 tablespoon honey
6 2 eggs
7 6 g baking powder
8 2 pinches salt
9 ½ lemon
10 ½ orange
Total weight: 740 grams

Times for this recipe

Preparation: 20 min.

Resting: 20 min.

Cooking: 40 min.

All in all: 1 hour 20 min.

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - ⌛ 10 min.

Preheat your oven to 170°C (340°F).

Pour 100 g whole almonds onto a baking sheet, and place in the oven for 10 minutes to roast.

Stage 2 - ⌛ 5 min.

Leave to cool, then chop very coarsely.

Set aside and leave the oven on.

Stage 3 - ⌛ 4 min.

In a bowl, first pour in the powders: 200 g flour, 90 g caster sugar, 10 g vanilla sugar, 6 g baking powder and 2 pinches salt.

Whisk to combine.

Stage 4 - ⌛ 3 min.

Add the almonds, 1 tablespoon honey, 2 eggs and the zests of ½ lemon and ½ orange.

Stage 5 - ⌛ 4 min.

Mix by hand, forming a sort of cylinder.

Stage 6 - ⌛ 2 min.

Place it on a sheet of baking paper on a baking sheet, and shape it into a roughly rectangular shape.

Stage 7 - ⌛ 20 min.

Bake for the first time at 170°C (340°F) for 20 minutes.

Remove from oven and turn down to 160°C (320°F).

Stage 8 - ⌛ 15 min.

Leave to cool for 15 minutes.

Stage 9 - ⌛ 3 min.

Cut into slices about 1 cm thick using a serrated knife.

Stage 10 - ⌛ 2 min.

Place the slices on the baking sheet.

Stage 11 - ⌛ 10 min.

Bake for the second time at 160°C (320°F) for 10 minutes.

Stage 12

Cool or chill before serving.

Remarks

You can replace the almonds with a mixture of other dried fruits: almonds, pistachios, pine nuts, walnuts...

Keeping: Several days in a jar or closed metal box.

Nutritional information

	Proteins (gr)	Carbohydrates (gr)	Fats (gr)	Energy value (in k-calories)	Energy value (in k-joules)
Whole recipe	50 RDI=20 %	330 RDI=30 %	80 RDI=10 %	2,050 RDI=100 %	8,590 RDI: 100 %
Per 100 g	7 RDI=3 %	40 RDI=4 %	10 RDI=2 %	280 RDI=10 %	1,170 RDI: 10 %