Two Tone Biscotti

Submitted by goodstuff4you

"This is a pretty version of biscotti I like to make around Christmas time. But feel free to change food coloring to suit the holiday!"

 

• Ready In: 1hr 10mins
• Ingredients: 10
• Yields: 48-60 cookies

ingredients

• 5 cups sifted flour
• 1 tablespoon baking powder
• 1 1⁄4 cups sugar
• 2 tablespoons orange juice
• 3⁄4 cup butter or 3/4 cup shortening
• 4 eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 teaspoon orange extract
• 10 drops red food coloring
• 10 drops green food coloring

directions

1. Combine flour, sugar and baking powder into a mixing bowl. Cut butter or shortening into dry mixture until it resembles coarse cornmeal. Make a well in the flour mixture. With a fork, beat together eggs, vanilla, orange juice and orange extract until well blended. Pour mixture into flour well and knead 5 minutes until smooth. Divide dough into two parts. Into one part, add 10 drops of green food coloring. Add 10 drops of red food coloring to the other dough, mixing each well to blend in colors. Pinch off a piece of the green dough about the size of an egg. Roll out to 12 inches long, and about as thick as your finger. Repeat with both doughs until all is used up. Place one roll of red dough and one roll of green dough close together on a cookie sheet. Repeat with double rolls (1 red and 1 green) 2 inches apart. Dough will rise when it bakes. Bake at 325 degrees for 10 minutes. Remove from oven and cool slightly. While still warm, pour glaze on and, if desired, finely chopped nuts. Cut into 1 inch slices.
2. Glaze: Combine 3 cups confectionary sugar, 3 tablespoons melted butter, 1 tablespoon Grand Marnier liquer, and 3 tablespoons boiling water.

Reviews

[larry s.]

Technically, this is NOT a biscotti. Biscotti means "double-baked" in Italian and this is only cooked once. If you want this to be biscotti, don't put the glaze on until after you cut into 1" strips, lay on their sides, then rebake about 7m flip and bake another 7m, THEN put the glaze on. Then it will truly be a Holiday Biscotti!!

 

[Sydney Mike]

Even though I don't use them for dunking (at least not in coffee) I do enjoy a good biscotti, & this is definitely one! I did, however, take two liberties with the recipe ~ I added 2 generous teaspoons of minced orange zest, & I left off the glaze. The glaze, by the way, wasn't included in the list of ingredient, & as a result, it wasn't included in the nutrition facts! Thanks for sharing the recipe! [Made & reviewed for one of my adopted chefs in this Spring's Pick A Chef event]