The first of my gingerbread posts of the season: gingerbread biscotti. This biscotti is not sweet and it’s lovely and crumbly, the perfect, light ‘little something’ with a fall cup of tea or coffee. I am quite proud of this recipe. I did my homework before I made it. I looked at a lot of gingerbread biscotti recipes. I choose the highest concentration of ginger to flour and the highest concentration of overall spices to flour. I wanted something that screamed gingerbread, but didn’t offend. The finishing touch of white chocolate is optional, but I think it fancies up a plain biscotti quite nicely 🙂 .
Gingerbread Biscotti
1/3 cup butter at room temperature
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup molasses
2 tsp. baking powder
2 eggs
2 3/4 cup flour
2 tsp. cinnamon
1 1/2 tsp ginger
3/4 tsp ground cloves
Icing
White chocolate (about 1 1/2 cups)
Cinnamon Sugar (1/4 cup sugar mixed with 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon)
- Preheat oven to 375°F.
- Beat butter with brown sugar and molasses until light and fluffy, 3-5 minutes.
- Stir in baking powder.
- Beat in eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
- In another bowl sift together flour, cinnamon, ginger and cloves.
- Beat flour mixture into butter mixture.
- Divide dough in half. With flour covered hands shape each half into a log about 12 inches by 2 inches.
- Bake in a preheated 375°F oven for 15-20 minutes or until lightly browned.
- Cool on cookie sheet for an hour.
- Transfer log to a cutting board and cut each loaf on the diagonal into slices, each slice about 1/2 inch thick. Lay slices, cut side down, on a cookie sheet and bake at 325°F for 10 minutes. Remove from oven and turn slices over. Return to oven and cook for an additional 8 minutes. Cool slices on a wire rack.
- Melt about 1 cup of white chocolate.
- Finish Option #1: Dip the bottoms of each slice into white chocolate and then into cinnamon sugar mixture. Lay on wire rack to dry.
- Finish Option #2: Place remaining chocolate in a heavy duty Ziploc bag and MW for 45-60 sec on 50% power. Squish chocolate to bottom corner of bag. Snip off corner and drizzle chocolate over one side of the biscotti. Let dry.
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