Carrot Cake Biscotti
Carrot Cake Biscotti
Enjoy the traditionally sweet and earthy flavors of a carrot cake in biscotti form, with a sweet glazed drizzled on top.This recipe is courtesy of Colleen Kennedy, Souffle Bombay.
Prep Time
15
minutes
Cook Time
45
minutes
Servings
24
Total time: 1 hour
Ingredients
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 tablespoon milk
- 1 cup minced carrots
- 1/2 cup raisins
- 1/4 cup minced pecans
- 1/2 cup butter, softened
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 2 eggs
- 3 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
- 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
Directions
- Mix powdered sugar, vanilla and milk until smooth and creamy.
- Set aside.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Pulse carrots and raisins in a food processor until chopped very small.
- Add pecans if you don’t have ones that are already minced.
- Add in butter, eggs, brown sugar and granulated sugar, and pulse until combined.
- In a separate bowl, whisk flour, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt until combined.
- Scrape the carrot mixture into the flour mixture, and mix until fully incorporated.
- The batter will be sticky, but if it’s still wet, add more flour.
- Divide dough in half.
- On a floured piece of parchment paper or pastry board, shape each half into a roll about 12 to 14 inches long.
- Carefully place rolls on a baking sheet, 3 to 4 inches apart from each other.
- Using fingers, press down on each roll until they are about ½“ high.
- Bake for 25 minutes or until golden brown.
- Take biscotti out and cool until they can be handled (approx. 3 minutes) yet are still warm.
- Using a sharp knife, cut crosswise slices (approximately ½“ in size).
- Lower oven temperature to 325 degrees.
- Flip each piece to one side (cut side down) and bake at 325 degrees F for 10 minutes.
- Take biscotti out and quickly flip them over to the other side.
- Bake for another 10 minutes or until lightly browned and somewhat firm.
- Allow biscotti to completely cool.
- Space biscotti pieces ½“ apart from each other on either parchment paper or a wire wrack.
- Dipping a metal whisk into the glaze, quickly drizzle back and forth across sections of biscotti to your liking.
- Serve.