Fruit and Nut Biscotti

Name: Fruit and Nut Biscotti
Cook time: 1 h 30 min
Total time: 1 h 30 min
Cuisine: Tanzanian
Ingredients: ½ cup (1 stick/115 g) unsalted butter, at room temperature; ¾ cup (150 g) sugar; 3 large eggs; 2 teaspoons vanilla extract; 2 cups (250 g) all-purpose flour; 2 teaspoons baking powder; ¾ teaspoon Diamond Crystal kosher salt; Almond extract, use coconut extract or ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon; Almond extract, use coconut extract or ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon; Almond extract, use coconut extract or ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon; toasted sliced almonds, use sliced or chopped toasted hazelnuts, peanuts, pecans, or pistachios; toasted sliced almonds, use sliced or chopped toasted hazelnuts, peanuts, pecans, or pistachios; toasted sliced almonds, use sliced or chopped toasted hazelnuts, peanuts, pecans, or pistachios; toasted sliced almonds, use sliced or chopped toasted hazelnuts, peanuts, pecans, or pistachios; toasted sliced almonds, use sliced or chopped toasted hazelnuts, peanuts, pecans, or pistachios; Semisweet chocolate, use milk, dark, or white chocolate; Semisweet chocolate, use milk, dark, or white chocolate; Semisweet chocolate, use milk, dark, or white chocolate; Semisweet chocolate, use milk, dark, or white chocolate; Dried cherries, use raisins, dates, apricots, figs, or cranberries; Dried cherries, use raisins, dates, apricots, figs, or cranberries; Dried cherries, use raisins, dates, apricots, figs, or cranberries; Dried cherries, use raisins, dates, apricots, figs, or cranberries; Dried cherries, use raisins, dates, apricots, figs, or cranberries; Dried cherries, use raisins, dates, apricots, figs, or cranberries

Preparation info

Makes
14
biscotti

Difficulty
Medium
Ready in
1 hr 30

Appears in

Third Culture Cooking

By Zaynab Issa

Published 2025

About

Lucky for me, my mom was never an “almond mom” (Google it). I think of her more as a “Cadbury mom”: the kind that can annihilate an entire family-sized bar of Cadbury chocolate by herself in one sitting.

For context, my mom spent her teenage years in London, where Cadbury chocolate is the reigning brand of choice. Whenever we’d travel there growing up, she’d bring back bars and bars of the purple foil–wrapped chocolate bars—either Whole Nut (milk chocolate with roasted hazelnuts) or

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Sub-Saharan Africa
Tanzania
Snack
Cookies
Vegetarian

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