Apple Pie Biscotti With White Chocolate Ginger Glaze Recipes

APPLE PIE BISCOTTI WITH WHITE CHOCOLATE GINGER GLAZE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350. Combine dry ingredients in a bowl.
• In a large bowl, whip eggs until foamy, then gradually add sugar. Beat until fluffy and thick, about 5 minutes. Add vanilla and apple butter to egg mixture. Add flour mixture to wet ingredients and stir until just combined. (Add in ginger here, if you wish).
• Sprinkle baking sheets with flour.Flour your hands and shape ½ dough into a log. Place log on baking sheet and flatten into a rectangle no more then ½ inch thick. Repeat with remaining dough. Make sure your hands are well floured! Bake for 20 minutes at 375 until the edges begin to brown and logs are firm.Turn oven down to 325.Slice logs with a serrated knife into ½ inch cookies and place (with the cut sides up) back in the oven.Bake for 40 minutes (or until dry), turning the cookies over after 20 minutes.
• Heat cream and extract until quite warm. Melt chocolate. Combine and stir thoroughly until smooth. Spread thin layer on top of cooled biscotti. Top with candied Ginger to taste.

SOY GINGER GLAZE

Steps:

• Mix all ingredients together
• use to glaze desired food.

GINGER BISCOTTI WITH WHITE CHOCOLATE

Steps:

• Blend white and brown sugars, chopped chocolate, butter, eggs, molasses and vanilla.
• Stir in flour, salt, baking powder, cinnamon, ginger, cloves and allspice.
• Stir into a stiff dough.
• Dough will be fairly dry.
• Roll out to a thickness of 1/2 inch and cut into preferred shapes.
• Preheat oven to 350F and bake on a cookie sheet for about 25 minutes (this biscotti is only baked once).
• Let cookies cool, then dip into melted white chocolate.

CRYSTALLIZED GINGER BISCOTTI WITH ALMONDS AND WHITE CHOCOLATE

Steps:

• Pre-heat oven to 325 degrees.
• Grease and flour a large baking sheet.
• In a small bowl combine the flour, baking powder, ground ginger and salt. Set aside.
• In a large mixing bowl beat the butter and sugar until fluffy.
• Beat in the eggs and vanilla and then slowly mix in the flour and other dry ingredients.
• With a spoon stir in the crystallized ginger, almonds and white chocolate chips until well combined.
• Divide dough in half and roll each portion into logs about 12 inches long.
• Place on prepared baking sheet and flatten each log slightly with your hand and then round off the edges a bit.
• Bake for 25 to 30 minutes, until lightly browned.
• Remove from oven and cool 5 minutes on the baking sheet.
• Carefully lift onto a cutting surface and slice with a serrated bread knife, using a gentle sawing motion, almost an inch thick.
• Transfer slices back onto the baking sheet, standing them up.
• Bake for an additional 10 to 12 minutes to dry them out, not letting them get too brown.
• Cool completely on a wire rack and then store in an airtight container.

CRANBERRY AND ALMOND BISCOTTI WITH WHITE CHOCOLATE DRIZZLE

Steps:

• Set oven to 350 degrees.
• Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
• In a bowl whisk together flour with baking powder and salt.
• Using an electric mixer beat the butter, sugar and eggs with extract until well blended (about 4 minutes).
• Add in the flour mixture, then the cranberries and almonds; mix well to combine.
• Divide the dough in half.
• With floured hands shape the dough in about 9 x 2-inch logs.
• Transfer the logs to prepared baking sheet, spacing evenly.
• In a small bowl whisk the egg white until foamy, the brush the egg white on top and sides of each log.
• Bake the logs until golden brown, about 35 minutes (the logs will spread when baked).
• Cool completely in the baking pan (leave the oven heat on to 350 degrees).
• Transfer the logs to a work surface.
• Shake out any crumbs from the parchment paper, then place back on the baking sheet with clean-side facing upwards.
• Using a serrated knife, sliced the logs on diagonal about 1/2 - 3/4-inches.
• Arrange the sliced biscotti cut side down on the same baking sheet.
• Bake for 10 minutes; turn the biscotti over and bake for another 5 minutes, just until beginning to lightly brown.
• Transfer biscotti to a rack to cool.
• For the glaze: stir the white chocolate in a double boiler over simmering water until smooth.
• Remove from over the water.
• Using a fork, drizzle chocolate over biscotti.
• Let stand until chocolate sets (about 30 minutes).