Holiday Biscotti

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The biscotti were delicious and were so festive on my holiday table. I received so many compliments and requests for the recipe. Thanks Giada.

Grace B.

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These are great! I did use orange instead of lemon zest and sliced almonds instead of pistachios (pistachios aren't my favorite and followed the cooking directons of others below and they are great!! I would recommend drizzling a little chocolate decoratively on the biscotti rather than dipping them. The white chocolate is very sweet and heavy and takes a bit away from the great cookie. A little taste of it is nice, but not too much. This recipe is defintely a keeper!

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I made this Biscotti for Christmas. I made it with Chopped up Caramels and cinnamon chips. They where a complete hit.
I make a batch once a week now so I have some with my Latte in the morning.

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These were excellent. I am sensitive to gluten so I made them with gluten free flour and the appropriate amount of xanthan gum (everything else stayed the same I did add a little more of my flour when I rolled the dough into a log because it was a little sticky(but just enough to roll it in the log. Everyone loved them. Thank you for a great recipe. I love your shows and your cook books.

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ggle: I didn't read the recipe through to understand the combined prep time and baking time. do you know the amount of effot it takes to get a tsp of zest from a lemmon rind when you have no clue how to do this? takes a while. and if your not careful, you get juicy zest. for the next half hour we shelled pistacchios..next came chopping...not to sound totally clueless, but I was trying to chop with a butcher knife..then smash with a meat tenderizer, finally I remembered way in the back of my cabinet..a handy little chopper gadget .and my daughter's chopping away..I'm having a fit because her zealous chopping is resulting in pistacchio dust..i misread the recipe and chopped the cranberries too. between the two of us we determinede the "log" needed to be flatter to achieve the desired lenghth and width...but it looked fruity and smelled lemonny so we whisked the lumpy mess into the oven.luckilly my daughter had the presence of mind to read the directions and stopped me from cutting the thing into crumbs before letting the whole affair cool properly..I bought ghiradelli white chocolate baking chips...and set out to melt them in a make shift double boiler...in the deep recesses of my memory I recalled baking something with my mother and her stressing something about melting chocolate: there is a short window of opportunity when the chocolate is melty enough to dip something...then the consitancy changes...in short, I over cooked ours and got "silly putty"..undetered, we slathered the white chocolate putty on with butter knives...sprinkled the sprinkles, put the cookies on my daughter's homemade Christmas plate now when I watch the Food Network, I have kind of a jaded eye...today I watched Anne Burrell make Italian Almond Cookies...and when I saw all that sticky gooey dough go into the pastry bag...I thought "oh no, I'm not falling for this again!"

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This biscotti is wonderful! Everyone who ate some loved it! Not only was it wonderful, but it was easy to make! I have never baked before, except for the occasional boxed brownie, and found that Giada's biscotti, florentine, and fig and walnut cookies were all very easy to make and looked and tasted wonderful. I would recommend them all to anyone!

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I made these for my mom,who absolutely loves biscotti and she loves this recipe. I usually don't care for it myself, but I like it now! Super easy. I did leave out the chocolate & sprinkles, though. Mine was done in 25 minutes instead of the 40 Giada said. I baked the slices on racks & they were perfect. All my mom said is "You're going to get sick of making this for me". Thanks Giada!

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Thiswas the most excellent cookie that i have ever made.!!! way to go giada!

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I've tried other biscotti recipes before but they have never turned out as wonderfully as this on. My father was so astonished that he blurted out, and I quote, " Screw buying the stuff." I love this recipe and it was well received by my family. I would recommend it for any first time biscotti makers. It's easy to follow. If you cut into it about 15 minutes after you first pull it out of the oven you have less trouble with it falling apart.

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I just tried this recipe out this morning, and I have to say it is wonderful!! I had no trouble with this recipe at all! I just tasted the biscotti, and it is delicious! I have not put the chocolate on it yet!! I may only put chocolate on half! I am making another batch now! I have never made biscotti before, and I can't wait to take this home for Christmas!! My husband is Italian, and I can't wait for him and his family to try this!!