Festive Dried Fruit Biscotti Recipes

CHRISTMAS FRUITCAKE BISCOTTI

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and set aside.
• Using a hand-held mixer, beat together the butter, sugar, and brown sugar until light and fluffy.
• Add the eggs and beat to incorporate.
• Add the flour, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, ginger, and salt; beat to incorporate.
• Switch to a wooden spoon and stir in the mixed candied fruit.
• Turn dough out onto prepared baking sheet and form into a log. (Dust your hands with flour; dough is a bit sticky!) Form log into a rectangle shape that is roughly 5" wide and 14" long.
• Bake for 30 minutes. Remove from oven and place baking sheet on a wire cooling rack so that air can circulate around the baking sheet. Allow to cool for 5 minutes.
• Reduce heat to 300°F.
• Use a fine serrated knife to slice the loaf into 3/4" slices.
• Place the slices standing up, meaning that both cut sides are exposed, on the baking sheet. Bake for 15 minutes.
• Remove the biscotti from the baking sheet and transfer to a wire cooling rack to cool completely.
• Package biscotti for gift-giving or pile into a food-safe container. Leave at room temperature, or freeze until needed for up to 3 months.

FESTIVE DRIED FRUIT BISCOTTI

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line a large cookie sheet with parchment paper.
• Beat margarine until soft.
• Beat in sugar and eggs.
• Add melted white chocolate,juice and extract until combined.
• With your hand fold in remaining ingredients. The dough will be sticky.
• Form dough into logs almost as long as the cookie sheet and place 3 inches apart.
• Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes until golden brown.
• Lower oven temperature to 325 degrees.
• Remove biscotti from oven and let cool 5 minutes before slicing diagonally.
• Return to oven and toast on each side for 5-10 minutes.
• Store in air-tight containers.

FRUIT AND NUT BISCOTTI

Steps:

• 1. Set oven temp to 325 degrees
• 2. Using one very large bowl break eggs and add sugar
• 3. Whisk eggs and sugar together
• 4. Add nuts and dried fruit to egg and sugar mixture and allow to cover it completely so when you add the flour it does not show up white in the middle of the pecans or walnuts etc.
• 5. Add flour to the bowl and using strong spatula mix up completely....
• 6. Use large cookie sheet and cover with parchment paper.put a little bit of butter on the parchment paper
• 7. Make a log and put it on the cookie sheet
• 8. Place in oven and bake about one hour
• 9. Take out of oven reset oven temp to 425 degrees
• 10. Using a very sharp serated knife slice the baked log on an angle ....take the sliced cookie and put back on the cookie sheet and rebake for five minutes on each side