Description
I received this recipe from a friend, and it’s great! I use the convection bake setting on my oven, so it’s usually 50 degrees hotter than normal ovens. you may want to add 50 degrees depending on your oven.
Ingredients
- ½ cup butter at room temperature
- 1 cup white sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 tablespoon orange zest (Optional)
- 1 teaspoon orange extract
- ¼ teaspoon almond extract
- 2 ¾ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 (6 ounce) package sweetened dried cranberries (such as Craisins®), or more to taste
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Beat butter and sugar together in a bowl until mixture is creamy. Beat in eggs
- orange zest
- orange extract
- and almond extract.
- Whisk flour
- baking powder
- baking soda
- and salt in a separate bowl; mix dry ingredients into moist ingredients to make a stiff dough. Mix sweetened cranberries into dough. Form dough into a ball
- cut into halves
- and shape each half into a log. Place logs onto prepared baking sheet.
- Bake in the preheated oven until the edges are lightly browned
- 20 to 25 minutes. Let logs cool completely on wire racks.
- Cut logs into slices on a slight diagonal and lay the slices on the parchment-lined baking sheet. Bake biscotti until crisp and lightly golden brown
- about 7 minutes.
Prep Time: 20 mins
Cook Time: 30 mins
Total Time: 1 hr 20 mins
Servings: 12