Nutty Mandel Bread Recipes

PASSOVER CHOCO-NUT MANDEL BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease baking sheets or line with parchment paper.
• In a large bowl, beat sugar and butter until light and fluffy. Mix in the eggs one at a time. Sift together the matzo cake meal, salt and potato starch. Stir into the batter just until blended. Gently mix in the walnuts and chocolate chips. Chill the dough briefly so it will be easy to handle.
• Divide the dough into halves and form each half into a 5 inch wide loaf that is about 1 inch thick. Sprinkle cinnamon sugar over the top.
• Bake for 45 minutes in the preheated oven. Cool, then slice into 1 inch slices to serve.

TRADITIONAL JEWISH MANDELBROT (MANDEL BREAD) RECIPE

Steps:

• Set rack in middle level of the oven and preheat to 350°F.
• In a bowl, combine flour, baking powder, and salt; stir well to mix.
• In another bowl, whisk eggs by hand until well mixed. Add sugar and whisk until smooth. Whisk in extract and oil.
• Fold flour mixture into egg mixture until all flour is absorbed. Fold in nuts, raisins, and chocolate chips.
• On a lightly floured surface, press dough together. Divide dough in half and roll each half into a log the length of your pan (14 to 18 inches). Place each log on pan and flatten slightly. Bake until well-risen and firm, about 25-30 minutes. Cool the logs on the pans and racks.
• Reset racks in upper and lower thirds of oven. Using sharp serrated knife, slice baked logs diagonally about every 1/2 inch. Place cinnamon-sugar mixture in a shallow dish and turn the cut cookies in it. Return biscotti to the pans, cut side down, and bake until dry and crisp, up to 20 minutes longer.
• Store cooled cookies between sheets of parchment or wax paper in tin or plastic container with tight-fitting container.

MANDELBROT

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. In an electric mixer beat eggs well and then add and beat well the oil, sugar and vanilla. Sift together salt, flour and baking powder, add to egg mixture and beat until just incorporated. Add nuts and any other additions at this time, fold in but don?t over-mix. The dough will be sticky, refrigerate for a few hours or longer, if needed. Coat hands with flour and then divide dough into thirds and shape each into long rolls 3 inches wide on a cookie sheet. They can be left straight or shaped into half moons. Bake for 30 minutes or until a little golden.
• Remove from the oven, slice into 1/2-inch slices with a serrated knife and return to cookie sheet. Either lay them flat on the cookie sheet or stand them on their ends. They may be sprinkled with cinnamon sugar at this point. Return to the oven and turn off the heat. Leave them in oven until oven cools or overnight. The longer one leaves them in the oven the harder they will become.

NUTTY MANDEL BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Generously grease a 10 1/2 x 15 1/2-inch baking pan.
• Cream sugar and eggs together using a stand mixer (such as KitchenAid®) fitted with the beater hook. Mix in oil, vanilla extract, baking powder, anise, and salt. Change to the dough hook and beat in flour, pecans, almonds, and walnuts. Spread batter into the prepared pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven for 30 minutes. Remove from the oven and let cool, about 5 minutes. Leave oven on.
• Cut into 4x12 rows and turn pieces on their unbaked sides. Return to the oven and continue to bake until brown, 10 to 15 minutes. Flip and bake until the other sides are crisp, 10 to 15 minutes more. Let cool in the pan before serving.