#biscotti

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Feb 10
2 min

How to Make Easy Caramel and White Chocolate Biscotti

I love making these Caramel and White Chocolate Biscotti because they are easy and I can use only one baking sheet. The cookies are sweet, crunchy, and subtly flavored. The caramel flavor comes from brown sugar and caramel extract (you can omit the extract if you can't find it) and is echoed with nutty white whole-wheat flour. A touch of cinnamon adds more flavor and interest. Creamy, sweet white chocolate tops the cookies. You can drizzle the white chocolate on the bisc

Jan 24, 2022
2 min

How to Make Red Velvet Biscotti Using a Cake Mix

This is a favorite quick recipe. It's especially useful when you need cookies quickly, don't have time to make a batch from scratch, and going out and buying cookies is prohibitive for some reason or another (like it's 9:15 PM and snowing). You do need a red velvet cake mix (if you're really in a pinch, use a chocolate mix and add some red food coloring!), but with that and a few other ingredients, you'll be on your way to great cookies. The cookies mix up in only a few mi

Dec 18, 2021
2 min

How to Make Strawberry-White Chocolate Biscotti With a Cake Mix

If you don't have time to create a dessert from scratch but need something that looks and tastes like you spent hours in the kitchen, try Strawberry-White Chocolate Biscotti. These little cookies take minutes to whip up using a cake mix and require only one cookie sheet for minimal cleanup. The biscotti look impressive with their lace-like white chocolate drizzle. They also taste really good. The biscotti are crisp and have a strawberry-almond flavor that isn't overpoweri

Dec 16, 2021
2 min

How to Make a Small Batch of Chocolate Biscotti That Are Great for Gifts and Cookie Plates

Chocolate Biscotti make wonderful Christmas gifts as well as additions to cookie platters. This recipe is one of my favorites, so I'm posting it again. It was the result of my efforts to create biscotti that are low in fat, crunchy but not tooth shattering, include some whole-grain flour, are just a little sweet, and that, of course, deliver dark, delicious, even slightly decadent chocolate taste. In this version, I've included pecans--chopped and toasted until they releas

Sep 28, 2019
2 min

Air Fryer Cookies: Coconut-Orange Biscotti

Okay, I just published recipe not too long ago, but I thought it's worth offering again. The cookies are that good. Plus, even though it's September, it's way too hot to turn on the big oven. The air fryer is a different story. In my quest to find out whether I can adapt various cookie recipes for the air fryer, I decided to test out "Arty the Air Fryer" on biscotti. Arty did well! If you can live with a small batch of biscotti, you're in business! In fact, I think the

Jul 3, 2019
2 min

Air Fryer Cookies: Coconut-Orange Biscotti

It's way too hot to turn on the big oven, but the air fryer is a different story. In my quest to find out whether I can adapt various cookie recipes for the air fryer, I decided to test out "Arty the Air Fryer" on biscotti. Arty did well! If you can live with a small batch of biscotti, you're in business! In fact, I think the air fryer version of biscotti crisp up better and certainly faster than the oven-baked biscotti. The cookies I'm offering today--Coconut-Orange Bis

Dec 22, 2018
2 min

Christmas Platter Cookies: Chocolate Biscotti

Chocolate Biscotti make wonderful Christmas gifts as well as additions to cookie platters. This recipe is one of my favorites, and I've posted it before. It was the result of my efforts to create biscotti that are low in fat, crunchy but not tooth shattering, include some whole-grain flour, are just a little sweet, and that, of course, deliver dark, delicious, even slightly decadent chocolate taste. In this version, I've included pecans--chopped and toasted until they rele

Dec 12, 2018
2 min

Cheap and Elegant Christmas Cookies: Vanilla Biscotti

How can you have cheap--okay, frugal--yet elegant Christmas cookies? You can do so by limiting the number of fancy, expensive ingredients in your cookies and concentrating on baking techniques that, though simple, create delicious results. Vanilla biscotti don't require pricey ingredients--not even butter. Yes, vanilla is expensive. Use imitation vanilla. You probably won't be able to tell the difference in baked goods, and some people actually prefer the taste of the im

Nov 1, 2018
2 min

Caramel and White Chocolate Biscotti

If you're not full of Halloween candy, maybe you'd like a cookie that's sweet, crunchy, and subtly flavored: Caramel and White Chocolate Biscotti. The little cookies can be made on one cookie sheet, limiting preparation and clean-up time, and the recipe makes a small batch, so the cookies will offer you limited temptation. The caramel flavor comes from brown sugar and caramel extract and is echoed with nutty white whole-wheat flour. A touch of cinnamon adds more flavor an

Aug 13, 2018
2 min

Open Sesame Tahini Biscotti

These are addictive, so plan on sharing or freezing some of the little biscotti if you want to limit the number you eat. The cookies are crisp, a little sweet but not overwhelmingly so, and have a slightly nutty, almost savory taste--like the sesame seeds that go into making the tahini. Additional sesame seeds as well as sugar and cinnamon dust the tops of the cookies. Tahini biscotti are great for those with nut allergies--only seeds, no nuts. You can adjust the crispnes

Aug 3, 2018
2 min

One-Sheet Pan Cookies: Orange-Almond Biscotti

Sheet pan cooking seems to be all the rage now, but seldom do I see recipes for sheet pan desserts. Now you've got one. Biscotti to the rescue. Yes, biscotti. They're easy, economical to make at home, and you can bake them on one cookie sheet or sheet pan for minimal fuss and cleanup. The recipe I'm offering today is for Orange-Almond Biscotti. The cookies are crispy but not tooth shattering. I like them because they're sweet but only a little. Instead of just sugar,

Feb 13, 2018
2 min

Share the Love: Strawberry-White Chocolate Biscotti

Sometimes you don't have time to create a dessert from scratch but need something that looks like you spent hours in the kitchen--like Strawberry-White Chocolate Biscotti. These little cookies take minutes to whip up using a cake mix and require only one cookie sheet for minimal cleanup. The biscotti, in honor of Valentine's Day, have a pink hue and lace-like white chocolate drizzle. In other words, the cookies look impressive. They also taste really good. The biscotti a

Dec 17, 2017
2 min

Quick Red Velvet Biscotti: Cake Mix to the Rescue

Sometimes you need cookies quickly, you don't have time to make a batch from scratch, and going out and buying cookies is prohibitive for some reason or another (like it's 9:15 PM and snowing). Here's a possibility to get you out of your time fix (or to satisfy your cookie fix): Quick Red Velvet Biscotti. You do need a red velvet cake mix, but with that and a few other ingredients, you'll be on your way to great cookies. The cookies mix up in only a few minutes, and you n

Oct 14, 2017
2 min

Fast Cookies: Orange-Coconut Biscotti

Most people who cook seem to think biscotti are time-consuming to make. They aren't. Which is one reason I really like biscotti. I need only one cookie sheet to make them--which means easy cleanup. The biscotti also are one of the few cookies I can mix up, pop in the oven while I prepare the rest of my dinner--the first bake is about 30 minutes--and then finish baking while my family eats. Admittedly, I do need to turn the biscotti once during dinner, but that takes only

Sep 5, 2017
2 min

Munch, Munch, Munch, Munch, Munch

I'm a big believer in cookies, albeit cookies that are not too terribly bad for you. Hence all the biscotti recipes you'll see in this blog. My latest offering to you is a cookie that's made for munching with your after-dinner fruit, coffee, or tea. Orange-Ginger Biscotti are low in fat, not terribly sweet, and redolent of juicy oranges. A bit of crystallized ginger gives the cookies some bite, but not so much as to be overwhelming. I chop the crystallized ginger with ki

Aug 19, 2017
6 min

Welcome to Christmas in August!

Welcome! For at least the next few months, I'll be making posts to this blog related to my efforts and those of my Dad to create an Advent cookbook. We started on our project more than a year ago and would like to share some of our work with you. We'd also welcome your comments. The postings you'll see for the next few months will be primarily about the recipes and menus I'm developing for the cookbook, along with some tips on how to eat well while saving money on your me

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