Biscotti with figs and anise.
You can cook Biscotti with figs and anise using 9 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Biscotti with figs and anise
- You need 260 g of all purpose flour.
- Prepare 1 1/2 tsp of baking powder.
- It’s 115 g of unsalted butter (at room temperature).
- It’s 1 of little salt.
- Prepare 150 g of sugar.
- Prepare 2 of large eggs.
- You need of zest of one orange.
- Prepare 1 1/2 tsp of anise (ground together with a little flour).
- Prepare 200 g of dried figs cut into small pieces (after you boil them first for 5 minutes over moderate heat so that they soften).
Biscotti with figs and anise instructions
- Mix the flour with the baking powder, the salt and the anise in a large bowl..
- Cream the butter with the sugar in the mixer. Add the eggs and the orange zest and then add the flour mixture little by little..
- Finally add the figs and fold in with a spatula so that all the ingredients are well combined..
- Line a large baking tray with greaseproof paper and with wet hands (because the dough is sticky) form the dough into a roll of about 30 cm long..
- Bake in a preheated oven at 180°C for 30 minutes. Remove from the oven and let it cool for 10 minutes so you can cut it with a knife into diagonal thin slices 1 cm thick which you place back into the baking tray. Bake for an additional 20 minutes (10 minutes per side)..