These festive white chocolate cranberry biscotti go perfectly with a warm cup of coffee and a pair of fuzzy socks.
This month’s Recipe Redux theme asked us to kick off the holiday baking season by making a lighter version of our favorite seasonal treats:
The holiday baking season is upon us. Time to pull out all the stops. Show us the healthy holiday dessert you will be sharing with family and friends this season.
There’s nothing more nostalgic than making Christmas cookies. Ever since I can remember I’d help my mom make my grandma’s Scottish shortbread cookies, sneaking wonderfully sugary, buttery bites of cookie dough as often as I could get away with 😉 While making cookies is still among my favorite holiday traditions, since living in Boston for the past 7 years, what I look forward to the most now is spending my mornings relaxed and curled up on the couch with my parents while dunking biscotti into a warm cup of coffee.
Since I won’t be going home for the holidays this year, I figured to help with the homesickness I’d bake up some biscotti of my own but with a festive flare.
The cranberry and white chocolate combo was never on my radar until cranberry bliss bars. Man are those things delicious! But unfortunately, they are also incredibly high in calories and sugar. So instead, I decided to make a cranberry bliss-inspired biscotti that would go just as well with a cup of coffee or latte as those cranberry bliss bars do. And the verdict: so yummy! AND only 120 calories for a large piece!
If you’ve never made biscotti before, trust me when I say it’s much easier than you may think. Simply mix together the batter, divide into two equal pieces (or three if you want to make smaller cookies), shape into a log and pop in the oven for 20-25 minutes. After that, let your logs cool then using a serrated bread knife, cut each log at an angle. Finally bake the cookies one more time for 4-5 minutes on each side.
You could really stop there if you wanted, as the cranberry biscotti on their own are perfectly sweet with a slight vanilla flavor. But, these are the holidays after all, so pour 3/4 cup of white chocolate chips into a double-boiler and melt them down. Dunk the bottom of each biscotti in the white chocolate then allow to cool. To speed up the cooling process, you can place your white chocolate-dipped biscotti in the freezer for 15-20 minutes.
Now all you need is to brew up some coffee and get dunking!
So here’s a toast to savoring old holiday traditions while also making some new ones!
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I love every single thing about this! And YAS please- double dunk in white chocolate!
Thanks Elizabeth!! Right? It is the holidays after all 😉
These are gorgeous! I’ve never made biscotti, but that needs to change. Baking your favorite holiday foods always makes it feel a little more like home, even if you aren’t there!
Thank you Kaleigh 🙂 Yes, definitely give it a shot! They are so easy and lend themselves to countless flavor options.
This looks so yummy! Wishing I had a piece to eat with my coffee right now!
Thanks Laura! Hope you give them a try for your coffee’s sake 😉
I had no idea biscotti was so simple! So sorry you won’t be going home for the holidays, but having traditions that you can do on your own will definitely make it better 🙂
Right? I was so shocked and have since been thinking up all the possible flavors to try out. Thanks Tara 🙂
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