Cranberry - Pistachio Biscotti and Awards

A crunchy and good tea time snack I tried from

William Sonoma 's Essentials of Baking.

Ingredients

All purpose flour - 2 cups

Baking powder - 1 1/2 tsp

salt 1/2 tsp

eggs - 2

unsalted butter - 1/2 cup

vanilla extract - 1 tsp

grated orange zest - 1 1/2 tsp

Almond extract - 1 tsp

coarsely chopped pistachio nuts - 1 cup

dried cranberries - 1/2 cup

Method

• Position a rack in the middle of the oven and preheat to 350 F.
• In a bowl sift together the flour , baking powder and salt.
• Combine eggs and sugar .
• Beat until light in color and thick abt 3 min.
• Beat in the melted butter , orange zest and vanilla ,almond extracts.
• Add the dry ingredients and beat well.
• Stir in the nuts and cranberries.
• The dough will be soft and sticky.
• Scoop out half of the dough onto one one half of the prepared baking sheet and form into a log 10 inch .
• Repeat with remaining dough.
• Press the logs gently to make them 3 inch wide with damp fingertips.
• Bake the logs until they are crisp and golden on the outside , 20 -25 min.
• The centres will be soft.
• Remove from the oven.
• Reduce the oven temp to 300 F.
• Let the logs cool on the baking sheet for 10 min.
• Transfer the logs to a cutting board .
• Cut each log crosswise on the diagonal into slices 3/4 inch thick.
• Arrange the slices cut sides down .
• Return to the oven and bake for 17 - 22 min.
• Flip the cookies in between.

The interiors of the cookies become crisp as they cool.

I am very happy that I have got two more Yummy blog awards from Shriya and Nirmala.Thank you so much friends. As per the rules I like to pass this award to Cham , sukanya Ramkumar , Latha Narasimhan , Lavi.