Mostaccioli Baresi means Spice Cookies from Bari. They have an unusual ingredient, a third of a cup of sweet wine. Sweet wine is red wine and sugar that is boiled and simmered for hours reducing the liquid to a syrup. Another ingredient might not be evident when you taste them is the cocoa powder. It gives them a rich taste. To create the shapes you roll pieces of dough and then cut them diagonally. After they bake you dunk them into icing and then pop them into your mouth. Some of these delicious morsels didn't quite make it. I dropped a few of them in the oven. To further my mistakes of the week, the biscotti should have had hazelnuts not macadamia nuts. I mistook the package and put in the wrong nuts. My tasters didn't mind, but I'll have to bake the real recipe soon. I have finally gotten over the mess of the initial biscotti dough. I formed the logs in the pan versus putting them on a board and then onto the cookie sheet. This means less frustration on my part. This biscotti really grew in the baking process and they had a great texture.
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