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This week in a flurry of Christmas excitement I tried two new recipes from this month's Bon Appétit: the Gingerbread Truffles and the Pistachio, Raspberry and White Chocolate Biscotti. Both recipes were fantastic. The biscotti were much easier to make than most of the cookies I've made recently because they don't involve beating butter and sugar together until fluffy. Instead, you just beat sugar, eggs, oil and extract together until just blended, then add the dry ingredients. The only part of this recipe that was slightly harder than I had expected was mixing in the nuts, berries and chocolate pieces, since the batter was pretty thick and sticky (you'll notice that the dried raspberries in my picture, which are pretty delicate, did not stay together in nice pieces the way they did for the magazine stylists). Otherwise, they turned out great, except for the fact that I somehow managed to make them a little more short and squat than your usual biscotti, but that's just my bad eye, not a problem with the recipe. The Gingerbread Truffles recipe was just as easy and the truffles have a wonderful gingerbread flavor. They're also denser than some other recipes I've used in the past, making it easier to dip them in chocolate. I will definitely use both recipes again - now if I can only keep from eating all of them myself.
Posted by georgia to Kitchen and Cooking , Reviews on December 16, 2005 12:50 AM | permalink | Email this post
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I suddenly have a biscotti craving...
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Yup. Never tried to make them before but maybe I should! Or. No, that would spell
biscotti-overeating-induced-explosion. But. SO TASTY!
Posted by: Robyn at December 18, 2005 03:09 PM
The solution to the eating-them-all-yourself problem is to make them as Christmas gifts or food for a Christmas party - I doubt you'll be able to get them all in your mouth before your friends grab them off the plate.
Posted by: Georgia at December 18, 2005 03:59 PM
