Easy Recipe: Tasty Biscotti with figs and anise

Biscotti with figs and anise.

You can cook Biscotti with figs and anise using 9 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Biscotti with figs and anise

1. Prepare of all purpose flour.
2. Prepare of baking powder.
3. Prepare of unsalted butter (at room temperature).
4. You need of little salt.
5. It’s of sugar.
6. You need of large eggs.
7. You need of zest of one orange.
8. Prepare of anise (ground together with a little flour).
9. You need 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 step by step

1. Mix the flour with the baking powder, the salt and the anise in a large bowl..
2. 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..
3. Finally add the figs and fold in with a spatula so that all the ingredients are well combined..
4. 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..
5. 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)..