Description
Instead of using cranberries use dried cherries for Almond Cherry Biscotti's. Recipe Comes from Plumercrest Bed and Breakfast. The bake time is 1 hour 15 minutes.
Ingredients
- 3 3/4 cups Flour
- 2 1/2 cups Sugar
- 4 eggs (room temperature)
- 1 teaspoon Baking Powder
- 1 pinch Salt
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla
- 1 2/3 cups raw Almond, toasted and roughly chopped
- 1 cup dried cranberries or dried cherries
Directions
- Pour flour into large mixing bowl.
- Make a well in the center and place Sugar, 3 eggs, all yolks, baking powder, salt, and vanilla into well.
- work the flour into the ingredients in the well until smooth.
- Knead in Almonds and cramberries throughly for about 5 minutes.
- Grease and flour 2 Baking Sheet that are at least 15 inches long.
- Divide dough in half.
- Roll each piece of dough on floured surface into 2-1/2 inch wide place the logs 2 inches apart on prepared baking sheets.
- Beat remaining Egg white and brush over tops of logs.
- Heat oven to 350 degrees.
- Bake 50 minutes.
- Remove from oven.
- Reduce temperature to 325.
- Cut logs diagonally into 1/2-inch slices and lay, cut side up, on sheets.
- Return to oven for another 15 minutes.
- Cool on racks.