Recipe for Almond and Raisin Biscotti

Making the perfect Almond and Raisin Biscotti should only take approximately 1 hr . It’s considered an Intermediate level recipe. Below are the ingredients and directions for you to easily follow. The Almond and Raisin Biscotti recipe can feed your family for 10 to 12 servings.

There are many different ways to make this Almond and Raisin Biscotti recipe. Once you’re familiar with our recommended ingredients and directions, you can add your own twist to this recipe to make it your own! We’ve also listed potential Cookware items below that might be necessary for this Almond and Raisin Biscotti recipe.

Almond and Raisin Biscotti Popular Ingredients

• 1 stick butter, room temperature
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 orange, zested
• 2 eggs, plus 1 egg white
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• Pinch salt
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/2 cup whole blanched almonds, toasted
• 1/2 cup golden raisins
• 1 tablespoon anise seeds
• 2 tablespoons turbinado sugar

Steps for making Almond and Raisin Biscotti

1. Preheat the oven to 300 degrees F.
2. In a mixing bowl combine the butter and sugar and beat, with a whisk or hand mixer, until light and fluffy, scraping down the sides periodically. Add the orange zest and beat in the eggs 1 at a time. Stir in the vanilla.
3. Gently mix in the baking powder, salt and flour. Once the flour is incorporated fold in the almonds, raisins and anise.
4. Divide the dough into 2 pieces. If the dough is sticky dust your hands with a little flour. Roll the dough into 2 logs the length of the sheet tray. Beat the egg white with 1 tablespoon of water in a small bowl. Brush the dough logs with the egg white and sprinkle with turbinado sugar. Bake in the preheated oven for about 30 minutes.
5. Remove from the oven to a cutting board and slice on the bias with a serrated knife while they are still warm. Slicing while warm will prevent crumbling.
6. Lay the biscotti back on the sheet tray(s), cut sides down, and return to the oven for another 10 minutes. This will harden the biscotti but not make them like rocks.
7. Remove from the oven to a serving platter and serve with coffee or Vin Santo for dipping.
8. Biscolicious!

Popular Categories for this Recipe

• Biscotti – Biscotti (/bɪˈskɒti/; Italian pronunciation: ; English: biscuits), known also as cantucci (), are Italian almond biscuits that originated in the Tuscan city of Prato. They are twice-baked, oblong-shaped, dry, crunchy, and may be dipped in a drink, traditionally Vin Santo.
• Cookie – A cookie is a baked or cooked snack or dessert that is typically small, flat and sweet. It usually contains flour, sugar, egg, and some type of oil, fat, or butter. It may include other ingredients such as raisins, oats, chocolate chips, nuts, etc.In most English-speaking countries except for the United States, crunchy cookies are called biscuits. Many Canadians also use this term. Chewier biscuits are sometimes called cookies even in the United Kingdom. Some cookies may also be named by their shape, such as date squares or bars.Biscuit or cookie variants include sandwich biscuits, such as custard creams, Jammie Dodgers, Bourbons and Oreos, with marshmallow or jam filling and sometimes dipped in chocolate or another sweet coating. Cookies are often served with beverages such as milk, coffee or tea and sometimes “dunked”, an approach which releases more flavour from confections by dissolving the sugars, while also softening their texture. Factory-made cookies are sold in grocery stores, convenience stores and vending machines. Fresh-baked cookies are sold at bakeries and coffeehouses, with the latter ranging from small business-sized establishments to multinational corporations such as Starbucks.
• Fruit – In botany, a fruit is the seed-bearing structure in flowering plants that is formed from the ovary after flowering.Fruits are the means by which flowering plants (also known as angiosperms) disseminate their seeds. Edible fruits in particular have long propagated using the movements of humans and animals in a symbiotic relationship that is the means for seed dispersal for the one group and nutrition for the other; in fact, humans and many animals have become dependent on fruits as a source of food. Consequently, fruits account for a substantial fraction of the world’s agricultural output, and some (such as the apple and the pomegranate) have acquired extensive cultural and symbolic meanings.In common language usage, “fruit” normally means the fleshy seed-associated structures (or produce) of plants that typically are sweet or sour and edible in the raw state, such as apples, bananas, grapes, lemons, oranges, and strawberries. In botanical usage, the term “fruit” also includes many structures that are not commonly called “fruits”, such as nuts, bean pods, corn kernels, tomatoes, and wheat grains.
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• Cooking pots
• Frying pan
• Steamers
• Colander
• Skillet
• Knives
• Cutting board
• Grater
• Saucepan
• Stockpot
• Spatula
• Tongs
• Measuring cups
• Wooden Spoon