Ingredients

How to make it

  • 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 and 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.
  • Makes about 5 and 1/2 dozen.

Reviews & Comments 3

Add a Link?

Post a link to another recipe or group by pasting the url into the box where you want it to show up. We'll do the rest.

Post Message or cancel
    " It was excellent "
    momo_55grandma ate it and said...
    Awsome! luv this recipe high5 thanks
    Was this review helpful? Yes Flag
  • petsitter75 14 years ago
    thanks for this recipe-i love to make biscotti for the holidays,and these sound wonderful! Barb
    Was this review helpful? Yes Flag
    " It was excellent "
    spinach1948 ate it and said...
    This great, My grandmother when I was a child made these. This brings back memories.
    5 from me.
    ED
    Was this review helpful? Yes Flag

Maybe List
Hang onto this recipe

while I look at others.

Holding 0 recipes