Best Apricot Pistachio Biscotti Recipes

Apricot-Pistachio Biscotti image

Provided by Martha Stewart

Time 45m

Yield Makes about 5 1/2 dozen

Number Of Ingredients 9

2 cups all-purpose flour (spooned and leveled)
1 cup sugar
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon fine salt
1/2 stick unsalted butter, room temperature
2 large eggs
1 cup dried apricots, finely chopped
1 cup shelled pistachios, chopped
1 1/2 teaspoons fennel seeds, chopped

Steps:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In the bowl of a stand mixer on low speed, using paddle attachment, combine flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt. Add butter and beat on medium until coarse crumbs form. With mixer on low, add eggs, one at a time, beating after each addition; mix in apricots, pistachios, and fennel seeds. Continue to mix until dough forms a ball, about 1 minute.
On a parchment-lined baking sheet, shape dough into two 2-by-12-inch logs. Bake until dry and set, about 25 minutes. Let cool completely on sheet on a wire rack. Transfer to a cutting board. With a serrated knife, cut logs on the diagonal into 1/4-inch slices. Bake on parchment-lined sheets until golden, 15 to 20 minutes, rotating sheets halfway through. Let cool completely on sheets on racks. (Store in airtight containers, up to 1 week.)

Nutrition Facts : Calories 102 g, Fat 4 g, Fiber 1 g, Protein 2 g, SaturatedFat 1 g

APRICOT/PISTACHIO BISCOTTI image

Number Of Ingredients 10

2-3/4 C. flour
1/4 t. baking powder
1/4 t. salt
1 C. unsalted butter - softened
1 C. sugar
2 egg yolks - save the whites
1 t. vanilla
1/2 C. dried appricots, diced
1/2 C. toasted whole pistachios - chopped
Parchment paper

Steps:

Mix together flour, baking powder and salt and set aside. With electric mixer, beat butter and sugar until fluffy then beat in egg yolks and vanilla. Gradually beat in flour mixture. Add apricots and nuts. The batter will be VERY thick - I usually mix by hand at the end. Separately beat 2 egg whites with 2 T. sugar until stiff peaks form. Gently fold egg whites into dough 1/3 at a time until fully incorporated Preheat oven to 375. Shape dough into two 12" logs (5" wide squared off on ends) on parchment lined cookie sheet. The dough is very sticky - you can flour your hands to help form logs. Bake for 20 min. and then let cool 20 min. Slice into 3/8" slices. This is difficult as the dough has a crust and the insides are mushy. I slice and then lift with the edge of the knife to turn on their sides in single layer on cookie sheet (using a serrated knife helps). Lower oven temp to 250 and bake 20 minutes, turn over and bake another 20 min. To make them nice and crispy, I turned the oven off and left them in the oven overnight...I've also just left them in the oven for a couple of hours after baking.