Chocolate Pistachio Biscotti

On January 16, 2006 in Different Dinner Project, Recipes

6 tablespoons unsalted butter
2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup white sugar
2 eggs
1/2 cup pistachios, shelled

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  2. Whisk together flour, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt in a bowl.
  3. In a separate bowl cream together butter and sugar until fluffy.
  4. Add eggs to butter and sugar, beating until well combined.
  5. Combine wet and dry ingredients and stir to form a stiff dough, then mix in pistachios.
  6. Form dough into a slightly flattened log about 12" by 4" on a large non-stick or greased and floured baking sheet.
  7. Bake until slightly firm (about 25 minutes) then cool on a wire rack. Reduce oven temperature to 300 degrees.
  8. Cut biscotti diagonally into 1" thick slices and arrange, cut side down, back on the baking sheet.
  9. Bake until crisp but slightly soft in the center, about 8 minutes.

Makes 8 biscotti

5 Comments
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razz

I’m finally going to try baking these. The recipe printed out beautifully!

12:26am on Saturday, December 2, 2006
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ken_sloan

Oh, that’s exciting! I love these. Don’t forget to freeze them and eat them with espresso, slightly softened and still chilly in the middle!

8:49am on Saturday, December 2, 2006
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razz

They were fabulous. I ate one and sent or gave the rest away. It broke my heart. I’m making another batch tomorrow for a co-worker’s Christmas present and then a whole batch on Sunday for a cookie exchange party I’m going to on Sunday (along with cinammon bun cookies). And I will eat none of them, and none of the cookies I get at the party, unless there’s one I’ve never seen before. C’est la vie.

4:15pm on Monday, December 4, 2006
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ken_sloan

Haha. “That’s life.. gotta eat what you haven’t seen before!” :)

Oh, I’m so glad these turned out for you… and yet so sad that you cannot eat them.

4:20pm on Monday, December 4, 2006
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razz

I’m going to make a couple batches tonight. One will vary from the cocoa powder version and be a fruit version. They really are fun to make, and I got more than 12 out of the batch, so … I guess mine were shorties. Heh.

I went back to the doc to get my blood drawn so they could check the blood sugar level. Hopefully it’s better. I’m now using this comment box where I should be responding to your last e-mail, but e-mails take commitment, and comment boxes … well, a comment is (supposedly) shorter than a pen-pal e-mail.

12:38pm on Tuesday, December 5, 2006

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