APRICOT-PISTACHIO BISCOTTI
Box up these fruity and nutty biscotti with your favorite tea or coffee beans for a great gift.
Provided by Martha Stewart
Categories Food & Cooking Dessert & Treats Recipes Cookie Recipes
Time 45m
Yield Makes about 5 1/2 dozen
Number Of Ingredients 9
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
PISTACHIO BISCOTTI
Steps:
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
- Lay the pistachios on a cookie sheet in a single layer. Bake for 10 minutes or until the nuts are lightly toasted. Remove from the oven.
- In an electric mixer, beat the butter until light and fluffy. With the mixer running, gradually add the eggs, sugar, and vanilla; mix until creamed. Add the flour, baking powder, and salt. Mix the dough until smooth. Using a wooden spoon, mix in the pistachios until evenly distributed.
- Put the dough on a lightly floured surface and cut in half. Roll each half into a log, each 12 inches long by 1-inch high. Place the logs on an ungreased cookie sheet and bake for 35 minutes or until the bottoms are lightly brown. Let the logs cool for 5 minutes and then place on a cutting board. Slice each log on a diagonal into 12 1-inch thick pieces. Put the cookies back on the cookie sheet and bake 5 minutes. Turn the cookies over and bake the other side for another 5 minutes. Store cookies in an airtight container.
APRICOT/PISTACHIO BISCOTTI
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.
APRICOT TART WITH PISTACHIOS
Working with phyllo dough is easy and satisfying, especially for cooks who are inclined to shy away from making pastry. Frozen puff pastry is having a moment, but for little effort, you can achieve similar results with phyllo sheets and never lift a rolling pin. Bright orange apricots are the ideal fruit, but other summer stone fruits, such as pluots, plums or nectarines, also work well. This makes a very impressive open face tart with a very crisp, ultraflaky crust.
Provided by David Tanis
Categories pies and tarts, dessert
Time 1h30m
Yield 8 to 10 servings
Number Of Ingredients 6
Steps:
- Heat oven to 375 degrees. Lay 1 sheet phyllo on a parchment-lined 12-by-18-inch rimmed baking sheet. Drizzle with 1 tablespoon butter and brush to coat the entire phyllo sheet.
- Top with another sheet and butter as above. Repeat with 7 more sheets, for a total of 9, buttering as you go. The final, top layer should also be buttered. (The rest of the phyllo can be wrapped and frozen for future use.)
- Dot the top sheet with jam by the teaspoon, then, using a spatula, spread the jam to cover the entire sheet, leaving a 2-inch border.
- Sprinkle a layer of half the chopped pistachios over the jam. Place the apricot wedges, skin-side down, in even rows across the surface, then sprinkle again with remaining pistachios.
- Carefully fold over the edges on all sides of the tart to make a 10-by-16-inch rectangle. Brush folded sides with butter. Sprinkle sugar generously over apricots and folded edges.
- Bake until pastry is golden and apricots begin to color, about 1 hour. Cool for 15 minutes, then cut into squares. Serve warm or at room temperature.
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Ingredients
To make apricotpistachio biscotti, you will need the following ingredients:- All-purpose flour
- Baking powder
- Salt
- Butter
- Granulated sugar
- Eggs
- Dried apricots
- Pistachios
- Vanilla extract
Instructions
To make apricotpistachio biscotti, follow these instructions:- Preheat your oven to 350°F (175°C).
- In a medium-sized bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, and salt. Set aside.
- In a large bowl, beat the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy.
- Add in the eggs and vanilla extract, and mix until everything is well combined.
- Add the flour mixture to the butter mixture, and mix until a dough forms.
- Stir in the dried apricots and pistachios.
- Divide the dough in half, and shape each half into a log about 12 inches long and 2 inches wide.
- Place the logs on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
- Bake the logs for approximately 25-30 minutes, or until they are lightly golden on top and firm to the touch.
- Remove the logs from the oven and let them cool for about 10 minutes.
- Using a sharp serrated knife, slice the logs into 1/2 inch slices.
- Place the slices back onto the baking sheet, and bake for an additional 10-15 minutes, or until they are crispy and golden brown.
- Remove the biscotti from the oven, and let them cool completely on the baking sheet.
- Serve and enjoy!