Chocolate Cherry Hazelnut Biscotti
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Chocolate Cherry Hazelnut Biscotti
Preparation Time: 30 minutes - 1 hour Cooking Time: 30 minutes - 1 hour Serves: 20
Category: Dessert Sub-Category: Cookies Cuisine: American
Ingredients:
I made this recipe up a few years ago. I went looking for biscotti recipes, but found several different techniques. So, I took a few concepts I found in a few different recipes and threw them together, and was happy with the results. Is it authentic? I don’t know. Is it tasty? You bet.
The best part is that people are so ridiculously impressed by biscotti, but I find these easier to make than traditional cookies. You don’t have to cream the butter, you don’t have to drop or shape cookies and wait for several pans to finish baking. You just make the dough with two bowls and a wooden spoon, bake the logs, let them cool, slice and bake again. They’re pretty easy and hands off, and impressive. You can also use whatever spices and filling you want: cardamom and anise seed; dried cranberry and white chocolate; pistachio and dark chocolate; orange zest, orange extract and walnuts, the sky’s the limit really.
You’ll need:
3 1/4 cups AP flour
2 1/2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
1 cup sugar
10 TB butter (that’s 1 1/4 sticks)
1/3 tsp freshly ground cardamom
1/3 tsp freshly ground nutmeg
1 tsp vanilla
3 eggs
1/2 cup Dark chocolate pieces (chips or bar, as seen here)
1/2 cup dried tart cherries
1/2 cup toasted hazelnuts (or almonds or whatever nuts you want), chopped
Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
