Blomgren - Craving for A Cookie? Bake Yourself Biscotti!: 30 Biscotti Treats to Tickle Your Taste Buds

Description: This fruity variant of biscotti has dry fruits to add more crunchiness. The raisins, almonds, cherry, and pistachio also add many nutrients into this snack.

Preparation time: 1 hour

Serving: 72 biscotti

Ingredients:

• Flour: 350g, excluding a little more flour for rolling.
• Baking powder: 2 teaspoons.
• Mixed spice: 2 teaspoons.
• Golden caster sugar: 250g.
• Eggs: 3, whisked.
• Orange zest, coarsely grated: 1
• Raisin: 85g.
• Dried cherry: 85g.
• Blanched almond: 50g.
• Pistachio, 50g, shelled.

Directions:

• Heat oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4.
• Line two baking sheets with baking paper.
• Pour the baking powder, flour, sugar, and spice into a large bowl and stir thoroughly.
• Stir in the zest and eggs slowly.
• Knead the dough in your hands properly.
• Pour in grated orange, raisin, dry cherry, blanched almond and pistachio and stir properly.
• Place the dough on a floured surface and divide into four pieces evenly.
• Roll the pieces into sausage shapes about 30cm long.
• Place two of each in a tray, well-spaced.
• Bake for 30minutes.
• Take out of the oven, place on a wire rack and turn down the oven to about 140C/fan 120C/gas 1.
• Using a bread knife, cut the dough into slices 1 cm. thick and lay the slices on the baking sheets.
• Bake for another 15 minutes until it is dry and golden.
• Allow them to cool down and enjoy with any beverage of your choice.

Description: These vanilla biscuits get along so perfectly with your hot beverage that you will end up finishing them before even taking one sip of your drink.

Preparation time: 2 hours

Serving: 30-40 biscotti

Ingredients:

• Butter: 6 tablespoons.
• Sugar: 2/3 cup.
• Salt: teaspoon.
• Vanilla extract: 3 teaspoons.
• Baking powder: 1 1/2 teaspoon.
• Big sized eggs:2
• Unbleached powder: 2 cups.
• Sugar for sprinkling.

Directions:

• Heat up the oven to about 350F. Grease a large baking sheet.
• Pour in the vanilla extract, salt, butter, sugar and baking powder, then mix thoroughly in a bowl.
• Pour in the eggs and beat. Place your mixer at a low speed and pour in the flour, blending continuously.
• Place the dough on the baking sheet and divide with your knife into two halves.
• Shape the dough into two 9 2 logs, about tall. Smoothen the logs. Sprinkle sugar over it, pressing it into the dough logs.
• Heat the dough for 25 minutes and take it out of the oven.
• Splash little water at the room temperature on the centre of the dough log to make it easier to slice. Lower the oven temperature to 325F.
• After five minutes, slice the dough logs straight and perpendicular to the pan, to make sure the biscotti does not end up thicker at one side.
• Place the biscotti on the baking pan and bake for 30 minutes.
• Take it out of the oven and allow it cool at the room temperature before serving

Description: These sugary delights are to die for. With subtle spiciness blended with sugar, these crunchy treats have an exceptional flavour.

Preparation time: About 2 hours

Serving:

Ingredients:

• Granulated sugar: 1 cup.
• Molasses: 2 tablespoons.
• Vanilla extract: 2 teaspoons.
• Large sizes of eggs divided:3
• Whole-wheat pastry flour: 1 cup.
• All-purpose flour: 1 cup and three tablespoons.
• Ground cinnamon: 1 teaspoon.
• Ground ginger: 1 teaspoon.
• Salt: teaspoon.
• Ground cloves: teaspoon.
• Baking powder: teaspoon.

Directions:

• Preheat the oven to 325F.
• Pour in granulated sugar, vanilla extract, molasses and two eggs into a mixer bowl and beat for 6 minutes.
• Pour in the flour, grounded cinnamon, grounded ginger, salt, grounded cloves and baking powder in another bowl and mix.
• Pour the flour mixture into the egg mixture and beat thoroughly.
• Divide the dough into half, place them on a baking sheet and shape the dough into an 84 inch loaf.
• Break the last egg into a bowl, whisk and rub the sides and top of the loaves with egg.