Hello everybody, it’s Drew, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, biscotti with figs and anise. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
The biscotti dough is flavored with orange zest and anise seed, and copious amounts of chopped dried figs and walnuts are mixed in. I am an absolute fig nut. Biscotti with figs and anise Perfect for all hours of the day, all kinds of weather and all kinds of mood!
Biscotti with figs and anise is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions every day. Biscotti with figs and anise is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are fine and they look fantastic.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have biscotti with figs and anise using 9 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Biscotti with figs and anise:
- Prepare 260 g all purpose flour
- Get 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
- Make ready 115 g unsalted butter (at room temperature)
- Take 1 little salt
- Get 150 g sugar
- Take 2 large eggs
- Get zest of one orange
- Take 1 1/2 tsp anise (ground together with a little flour)
- Take 200 g dried figs cut into small pieces (after you boil them first for 5 minutes over moderate heat so that they soften)
Cardamom and cinnamon complete these crunchy Italian cookies. It's a cozy, rainy day here in Montana, the kind of day you want to spend in the kitchen baking. If you like figs like my family does, you will love these. Bake some for gifts as I do, place them in a pretty box or tin between layers of wax paper, they stay fresh for a month.
Steps to make Biscotti with figs and anise:
- Mix the flour with the baking powder, the salt and the anise in a large bowl.
- Cream the butter with the sugar in the mixer. Add the eggs and the orange zest and then add the flour mixture little by little.
- Finally add the figs and fold in with a spatula so that all the ingredients are well combined.
- Line a large baking tray with greaseproof paper and with wet hands (because the dough is sticky) form the dough into a roll of about 30 cm long.
- Bake in a preheated oven at 180°C for 30 minutes. Remove from the oven and let it cool for 10 minutes so you can cut it with a knife into diagonal thin slices 1 cm thick which you place back into the baking tray. Bake for an additional 20 minutes (10 minutes per side).
Back to Fig and Walnut Biscotti. All Reviews for Fig and Walnut Biscotti - of Reviews. Line a baking pan with foil; set aside. In a large bowl, combine the flour, baking powder, aniseed, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg; set aside. Coleen, You don't have to use anise, maybe a little orange extract to go along with the orange peel, since fig and orange goes so well.
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