Do you have a super nom pumpkin biscotti recipe?

November 19, 2015 8:22 AM

I want to bake all the things. And by all the things I mean just pumpkin biscotti.

I can google. Been googling all morning! I keep coming across recipes that sound or look good, and then there are either no comments, or people in the comments say the biscotti are too soft in the middle, or not sweet enough, or just meh. So I'm not looking to links to recipes online that haven't been tried (would like you to link them if you HAVE tried them though), I'm looking for straight from you to me recipes for hard, beautiful, crunchy, sweet, pumpkin biscotti, which is fine plain but can also have extras in it like chocolate or seeds or nuts or what have you.

I'm having Thanksgiving dinner and then game night afterwards and would love to serve coffee and biscotti, and send everyone home with some too. I have made it in the past (wish I had saved that recipe!) and like mine to look this way - long and flat and a little darker on the edges. Frosting not necessary. Please pumpkin me up!

posted by the webmistress to Food & Drink (3 answers total)

Hmm. When you say that you've found recipes where people say that the biscotti is "too soft in the middle", may I ask - do those recipes include the second baking? Because it strikes me that you could just adapt one of those, if they don't; bake it the way it's supposed to be, but then run everything through the oven a second time, on a lower temperature, just to dry them out.

I've seen some biscotti recipes skip that step, and it makes a big difference (hell, the name "biscotti" means "twice-baked").
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 8:43 AM on November 19, 2015 [2 favorites]

Response by poster: Yep they do include the second baking. Weird, right? I mean, why even bother if the biscotti isn't dried out and hard?

I just don't want to bother with the time and money on the "if" chance that they may come out right if I adapt or change something. I really just want some nice mefite to come along and share a recipe that they've already tried with me. I'm not going to waste the time experimenting. I hope that doesn't sound dismissive, I just want what I want!
posted by the webmistress at 8:52 AM on November 19, 2015

Response by poster: Since I didn't get any response I tried this recipe. Don't bother. The flavor is off, and the biscotti will not get hard and crunchy no matter how many freaking hours you bake them. Ugh. Total waste of time and money.
posted by the webmistress at 9:03 PM on November 22, 2015