Best Biscotti
Ingredients
4 eggs
2 tablespoons vanilla
4 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup butter, at room temperature
1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
Preparation
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Wisk together eggs, liqueur and vanilla.
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Sift together, flour, baking powder and salt.
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Mixture until thoroughly combined. Stir in flour mixture. Divide into 3 or 4 equal
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Amounts.
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Add flavourings to each individual dough, enough that there are lots of chunks but not so much that the dough can’t hold together. (Between ¾ cup and 1 cup total per dough if divided in four pieces 1-1/3 cups if divided into three pieces.)
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On two parchment-lined baking sheets, shape into 12 by 1-1/2 inch logs for 4 pieces, or 16 x 1-1/2 inch logs for 3 pieces.
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Makes about 5 dozen biscotti.
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Suggested flavours for additions:
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Almonds, white and dark chocolate chunks or chips.
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Orange zest, almonds or pecans, and cranberries
Tools
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About
Many years ago on CityLine - Canada's longest running lifestyle show - Sandra Pittana, the fashion expert who is a regular guest on the show, deviated from the norm of fashionista and from her kitchen showed how she made her favourite recipe for biscotti. This particular recipe yields quite of lot of cookies so the dough can be divided into two or three bowls to which you can add different ingredients such as almonds, hazelnuts, pecans, cranberries, dried cherries, chocolate chips or any combination thereof, and end up with three different flavoured biscotti. Of course I knew that I would try this recipe, and although I’d been making biscotti for a while, after trying these any prior recipe became history and this one became my favourite.
Yield:
5 Dozen
Added:
Sunday, May 30, 2010 - 6:59am
