The Best Biscotti Apricot And White Chocolate Interchangeable Recipes

ORANGE SPICE APRICOT WHITE CHOCOLATE BISCOTTI

Steps:

• 1. heat oven to 350 degree's whisk together all of the dry ingredients in a large bowl. Make sure to chop up any lumps from the brown sugar.Whisk until very well incorporated.
• 2. add the apricots and nuts and stir really well. add the molasses, orange juice, orange zest, eggs,and butter.
• 3. put your hands in the bowl and knead the dough. knead until all ingredients are well mixed. This will take about 5 minutes. Be patient. Just keep squeezing the dough together when kneading it. It will become smooth and moist after kneading it well.
• 4. Flour your hands well. Take the ball of dough and place on parchment or waxed paper. Make in to a log about 4-5 inches wide by 16- 18 inches long and 1 inch in thickness.Pick up log and place on a parchment lined cookie sheet.(butter the sheet pan before applying the parchment on top. this will help keep the parchment in place.)
• 5. Bake at 350 for 30-40 min.. Remove from oven and cool for 15 minutes. Leave log on sheet pan. Cut slices with a serrated knife about one inch or less in thickness.
• 6. lay the pieces you cut on their sides on the parchment lined pan.Put back in the oven for 10 minutes. do not over brown. It depends on how hard you like your Biscotti. The longer you bake them. The harder they will be. I prefer them harder, and crunchy. Remove from oven and flip cookie over. Return to the oven.Bake again for 10 You can bake them longer for a crispier Biscotti. Also they harden up more after they cool.
• 7. Let Biscotti cool thoroughly. Next Pick up Biscotti and line them up on the pan smooth side up like the log is being put back together. Put cookies close as possible.
• 8. make the icing. Melt the white chips with the shortening,and milk in microwave. set timer for 2 minutes. Stop every 30 seconds or so to stir. When they are all nicely melted add the orange zest and stir well. Take the icing and drizzle all over the top of the Biscotti.
• 9. let it set in refrigerator for a few minutes. Some cookies may be stuck together after doing this. Simply get the knife and score on area's where they were sliced. Now they are ready to serve. Keep in an air tight container,or you may freeze them.

WHITE CHOCOLATE BISCOTTI

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour 2 cookie sheets.
• Combine sugar, butter, and eggs in a large bowl; beat with an electric mixer until smooth and creamy. Add flour, almonds, apricots, orange juice, melted white chocolate, chopped white chocolate, baking powder, salt, and almond extract. Mix until well blended; dough will be sticky and very soft.
• Divide dough in 1/2 and carefully form into 2 long logs, each about 2-inches wide. Place each log on a prepared cookie sheet.
• Bake in the preheated oven until golden brown, 25 to 30 minutes, keeping a close eye that they don't get too brown. Cool on the cookie sheets for 10 minutes. Cut logs into 1/2-inch wide strips.
• Place cookies back on cookie sheets. Return to the oven and bake for 10 more minutes. Cool completely before serving.

WHITE CHOCOLATE APRICOT BISCOTTI

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Beat butter, sugar and eggs together in large bowl.
• Add in melted, cooled white chocolate.
• Add all remaining ingredients making sure to blend well.
• Dough will probably be sticky.
• Grease and flour 2 cookie sheets.
• Spoon half of the cookie dough evenly onto both cookie sheets and shape into a long wide log.
• Bake for 30 minutes then cool for 10 minutes.
• Cut into 3/4" wide slices.
• Return cookies back to sheet and cook another 20 minutes, making sure to turn cookies once during last baking.
• Cool and store in covered container.

WHITE CHOCOLATE-APRICOT BISCOTTI

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350ºF. Beat butter and sugar in large bowl with mixer until light and fluffy. Blend in eggs, chocolate, juice and extract. Add flour, baking powder and salt; mix well. Stir in remaining ingredients.
• Shape 1/2 of dough into 15x2-inch log on center of each of 2 greased and lightly floured baking sheets.
• Bake 30 min or until golden brown. Remove from oven; cool 10 min. on wire racks. Place on cutting board. Cut each log into 16 slices; place, cut-sides down, on baking sheets. Bake an additional 20 min., turning over after 15 min. Remove to wire racks; cool completely.

THE BEST BISCOTTI - APRICOT AND WHITE CHOCOLATE (INTERCHANGEABLE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to gas mark 4.
• Whisk the egg and sugar in a clean bowl until mouse like and leaving ribbons when you pull the whisk out. This may take a 5 minutes, so hang in their (use an electric whisk so your arm doesn't fall off). Once the mouse is made, beat in the vanilla
• Sieve the flour, baking powder, and salt and fold this gently into the mousse until well combined.
• Gently fold in apricots and white chocolate
• Mould this squishy dough into a long sausage shape either by flouring a work surface and getting sticky shaping it, or by carefully spooning onto a baking sheet lined with greaseproof paper. I prefer the latter as I don't like to waste biscuit mix!
• Once on the baking sheet on the paper, sprinkle lightly with a little flour and put in the oven for 25 minutes.
• Take out after 25 minutes. Let cool for 5 minutes and cut into diagonal wedges approx 1cm wide. Put this back into the oven for another 10 minutes.
• Take out oven let harden for 5-10 minutes and put in airtight container.
• Mess about with recipe so that you can have different flavours.

STEPHANIE'S APRICOT WHITE CHOCOLATE COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• In a mixer, beat the butter and brown sugar until blended. Beat in the egg and vanilla and almond extracts until combined. Add the flour, baking soda, and salt, and mix until combined. With a wooden spoon, mix in the apricots and white chocolate. Drop the batter by tablespoons onto ungreased cookie sheets, spacing 2 inches apart. Bake until the edges are lightly brown, about 10 minutes. Cool on wire racks.

ALMOND APRICOT BISCOTTI

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Whisk together flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt in a bowl. Blend in butter with a pastry blender or your fingertips until mixture resembles coarse meal. Add whole egg, milk, and extracts, stirring with a fork until a soft dough forms, then knead in almonds.
• Divide dough between 2 sheets of wax paper, then form into 2 equal mounds and flatten each mound into a 5-inch disk. Put half of apricots in center of 1 disk and fold dough over apricots to enclose them (use wax paper as an aid if necessary), then transfer to a parchment-lined baking sheet. Form into a 14- by 2 1/2-inch log lengthwise on 1 side of baking sheet, spreading dough with wet hands. Make another log with remaining dough and apricots, arranging it about 4 inches from first log.
• Brush logs with egg wash and bake in middle of oven until pale golden and firm, about 20 minutes. Cool on baking sheet on a rack 20 minutes.
• Reduce oven temperature to 300°F while logs cool.
• Carefully transfer baked logs to a cutting board using 2 wide metal spatulas, then cut logs diagonally into 1/2-inch-wide slices with a large heavy knife.
• Line baking sheet with a clean sheet of parchment. Stand slices, curved sides up, 1/2 inch apart on baking sheet and bake in upper third of oven until biscotti are dry, about 30 minutes (they will become hard as they cool). Transfer biscotti to rack to cool.