Description
You will love this simple and irresistibly delicious Pumpkin Pie Biscotti recipe! Quick and easy to prepare at home.
Ingredients
- 3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 1/2 cups firmly packed brown sugar
- 2 tsp. baking powder
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- 2 tsp. pumpkin pie spice, store-bought or homemade (see tip below for substitution)
- 1/2 cup pumpkin puree
- 2 large eggs, lightly beaten
- 1 Tbsp. vanilla paste (or 1 Tbsp. vanilla extract)
- 2 Tbsp. butter or margarine
- 1 1/4 cup pecans or walnuts, coarsely chopped
- 1/4 cup melted white chocolate, for drizzling or dipping (optional)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350*F.
- Combine flour, brown sugar, baking powder, salt, and pumpkin pie spice in a large bowl; stir well. In another bowl, combine pumpkin, eggs, and vanilla, stirring well with a wire whisk. Slowly add pumpkin mixture to flour mixture, stirring until dry ingredients are moistened. (Mixture will be very crumbly; it will gradually become moist after stirring.)
- Melt butter in a large skillet over medium heat; add nuts. Cook, stirring constantly, until nuts are browned. Remove from heat and cool completely.
- Knead or gently stir cooled nuts into dough. Place dough on a lightly floured surface and divide into 2 portions. Lightly flour hands and shape each portion into a 2 x 10? long log. (Or I just made one large 8″ x 16″ log.) Place logs 3? apart on lightly greased cookie sheet. Bake for 24 minutes; cool logs 15 minutes. Reduce oven temperature to 300 F.
- After some cooling, move a loaf to a cutting board and cut diagonally into 1/2? thick pieces. Do the same to the other loaf. The interior of each biscotto should still be just a little moist (while the exterior is nice and hard). The crust of the loaf will probably be quite hard, so use a large serrated knife such as a bread knife for this job.
- Place the biscotti with a cut side facing up on a half sheet pan and bake for 8 minutes. Remove the pan and flip all the biscotti over so the other cut side is now facing up. Bake for another 7 minutes. Set all the pieces on a wire rack to cool making sure that none of the biscotti are touching each other. If the biscotti are placed too close together, they could get a little soft or soggy as they cool.
- Once the biscotti have fully cooled, they can be consumed as is, or white chocolate dipped or drizzled. To melt the chocolate, pop it in the microwave and heat for 30 seconds, then stir. Then continue heating in 15-second increments (carefully) and stirring in between until chocolate is melted. (I usually add in a little shortening to help it melt and avoid burning.) Then just dip a fork in the chocolate and swish it over biscotti to drizzle, or you can pour it in a Ziplock or pastry bag (with a tiny corner snipped out) and squeeze it out.
- The biscotti tastes best during the first few days, but will keep for up to a month in a sealed air-tight container.
Notes
If you don’t have pumpkin pie spice, you can substitute in:
- 1 tsp. ground cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp. ground ginger
- 1/4 tsp. ground cloves
- 1/4 tsp. ground nutmeg
Oh my! Just when I thought my pumpkin cravings might be over, here is your wonderful recipe. Must make pumpkin biscotti…will eat pumpkin biscotti…will love pumpkin biscotti :D
Glad you posted the recipe! And that’s why you’re my favorite girl! I saw other people posting but no recipe .
Again many thanks, you never dissappoint
I do have to admit that biscotti isn’t my favorite thing to make–but yours turned out gorgeous!
I’ve never made biscotti, but I think your post has convinced me to try it! This looks delicious (and I love the teacup and saucer!).
Quick question, about how many pieces should this recipe yield? Also, is 2″ x 10″ logs correct? 2 seems kind of tiny??
Hey Jess!!
Oooh – thanks for mentioning that! I forgot to write on there how I did it. I actually just made one huge log — probably about 8″x16″. And it probably yielded about 20 pieces. But you could definitely do the two smaller logs, too, and get a bunch more smaller biscotti.
Hope that helps!
~A
Can you talk about what’s in your “pumpkin pie spice”? Do you make it yourself or is it just the commercial mixes I’ve seen in the grocery store? Is there one you’d recommend over others? Thanks!
Hey Sam!
I actually detailed out a recipe for my pumpkin pie mix at the bottom of the page (see “Ali’s Tip”). Hope that helps!
Otherwise, I usually just use whatever brand is at the grocery store. :)
~A
yum! I just made these and they are delicious!
I have never tried to make biscotti, but I really like the idea of a pumpkin pie version. Looks perfect alongside a cup of hot coffee.
so great! i made them yesterday but had to use Heath bar pieces b/c we didn’t have any nuts but they turned out great!
I was just searching for a good Pumpkin Pie Biscotti recipe to try out before I make them for my daughter’s school. Your’s look absolutely fabulous!
Lynn
Made these last year (2011), and they were AMAZING! Some how I got a lot out of your recipe- we had biscotti for the whole winter :) I don’t know how that happened, and my cuts were about 1/2″ thick. Anyway, I can’t wait to make this again, and share it with my homeschool co-op this year. Think I might try adding some craisens to this recipe. Might make an extra batch just for strickly giving away to friends and family. Thanks for this perfect recipe! It is bookmarked on my computer, and now written down and added to my collection of tried and true recipes :)
What a fantastic way to kick off autumn! Not only is this a cozy and warming snack with tea or coffee, but makes the house smell so good! Thank-you very much for sharing this with everyone!
Great recipe, but your cooking time posted for the recipe is only twenty minutes. The recipe then bakes the biscotti for 24 mins, cooling for 15, baking another 8 minutes, then a final 7 after flipping the pieces. This took much longer than anticipated. You may want to have this corrected.
I just made these, they made my house smell great! but the cookies themselfs were not very tasty. I will try making them again sometime. thank you for sharing your recipe.
Love these. I am making for the second time. This time I was greedy (and in a time crunch) and doubled the batch.
Not my best idea, but coming out ok. I did let the dough sit for five (?) minutes on my cutting board, (covered of course- with the parchment paper I cooled the nuts on and then baked the first logs), before shaping to absorb the pumpkin. Worked nicely. will make again, Thank You!!
Absolutely fantastic simple recipe. I added a third teaspoon of pumpkin pie spice to really bump up the flavor and pumpkin seeds were my nut of choice along with walnuts. Would definitely make this recipe again thanks!
I made this recipe. I also added 1/2 cup dried cranberries to the batter. Delicious.
I made this last fall & loved it so much I went on a google rampage trying to find this recipe again. So glad I found it! Instead of using white chocolate drizzle as a topping, I made a cream cheese icing to drizzle on top. Holy smokes. It is so good! I made it for a family function & everyone loved it! I can’t wait to kick off this fall season with a batch of these again. So yummy! Thinking about adding praline pecans to this but idk about that.
Howdy! This is my first comment here so I just wanted to give a quick shout out and tell you I really enjoy reading through your posts. Can you suggest any other blogs/websites/forums that deal with the same topics? Thank you!
I made these today but I had to add another 1/2 cup of pumpkin to get the mixture to mix together. After they were baked they looked delicious but I probably needed to add a bit more brown sugar. I also had to bake them longer than the recipe called for.