This holiday Cranberry Pistachio biscotti is a family favorite. Crunchy cookies filled with craisins and pistachios and dipped in white chocolate.
If you love cranberries this time of year, be sure to try our cranberry bliss bars! Or give our homemade cranberry sauce a try, readers love it!
Why this Recipe Works
Have you ever made your own biscotti?
I started doing it a while ago and found out it’s easier than I thought. This recipe creates a crispy toasted cookie that’s perfect for dunking in your coffee!
Once you learn how to make biscotti you can mix it up with all kinds of different add ins and flavors. I love this Cranberry Orange Biscotti all year long and this time I added in some chopped pistachios too.
They add not only to the flavor of this biscotti, but I love the red/green color of the craisins and pistachios. Just right for the holiday season!
Packed with juicy cranberry flavor and even more crunch from the pistachios, Cranberry Pistachio Biscotti works as a breakfast treat, snack or after-dinner dessert.
You can even make a the dough ahead of time and store it in the freezer so you’re never more than a few minutes away from fresh, homemade biscotti!
Be sure to try our Pumpkin Biscotti for fall baking!
Ingredient Notes
- Pistachios – Remove the shells (or buy pre-shelled) and chop finely.
- Candy coating – For the topping, vanilla or white chocolate melting wafers like Candiquik work best.
- Dried cranberries – I used Craisins in these biscotti.
Trust me when I say biscotti is easy to make. It also keeps really well in an airtight ziploc bag, so you can enjoy one every morning! You’re welcome!
Easy Instructions
What sets biscotti apart from other cookies is that they are double baked! After making the dough, you shape it into a rectangular log and bake it.
Then, slice the baked dough with a pizza cutter, lay each piece on its side and bake again. Flip the biscotti and bake one more time to make sure the sides are evenly brown.
After the biscotti cool, dip one side into a bowl of melted white chocolate candy coating. Let the candy coating set, then serve and eat or store!
Recipe FAQs
Stored in an airtight container or ziploc bag, this biscotti should stay crunchy and fresh for up to 2 weeks.
Biscotti don’t freeze well once baked because they lose their crispy crunchy texture once thawed. You CAN freeze the dough, though! Before baking, wrap the dough in plastic wrap and store in a freezer bag. Bake from frozen adding a few minutes of extra baking time. No need to thaw first!
Cut the logs thinner in width but keep the same thickness so you don’t have to adjust the baking time. You can make the biscotti as wide or thin as you like.
More Christmas recipes
- English Toffee
- Candy Cane Cake
- Peanut Butter Fudge
- Grinch Brownies
- Divinity Candy
- Christmas Crack
- Sugar Cookies – perfect no-spread cut out cookies
- Grinch Drink
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Cranberry Pistachio Biscotti
Ingredients
- 6 Tablespoons unsalted butter softened
- ¾ cup granulated sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ½ cup dried cranberries Craisins
- ½ cup shelled pistachios chopped
- 8 ounce white chocolate candy coating vanilla Candiquik, melted
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degree F. Line a large baking sheet with parchment paper, set aside.
- In a large mixing bowl, beat butter with sugar until combined, about 2 minutes. Add in eggs and vanilla. Slowly add flour and baking powder. Mix until thoroughly blended. Fold in cranberries and pistachios.
- On prepared baking sheet, shape dough into a 12 inch by 5 inch rectangle, that is about 1/2 inch thick. I use a little extra flour on my hands to keep the dough from sticking.
- Bake for 25 minutes. Remove from oven. Using a pizza cutter or serrated knife, slice biscotti into 12, one inch wide slices. Lay each slice on it's side, separating them on the baking sheet.
- Bake an additional 10 minutes. Flip biscotti to opposite side and bake another 10minutes. Remove and cool completely before frosting.
- To garnish, dip bottom of cooled biscotti into melted vanilla candy coating. Set on parchment paper (candy coating side DOWN) and allow to dry/set. Once set (about 15 minutes) store in an airtight container or ziploc bag for up to two weeks.
Notes
- Stored in an airtight container or ziploc bag, this biscotti should stay crunchy and fresh for up to 2 weeks.
- Biscotti don’t freeze well once baked because they lose their crispy crunchy texture once thawed. You CAN freeze the dough, though! Before baking, wrap the dough in plastic wrap and store in a freezer bag. Bake from frozen adding a few minutes of extra baking time. No need to thaw first!
- Cut the logs thinner in width but keep the same thickness so you don’t have to adjust the baking time. You can make the biscotti as wide or thin as you like.
Nutrition
Fresh homemade biscotti beats the store bought cookies by a mile. With white chocolate coating and flecks of red and green for holiday flair, Cranberry Pistachio Biscotti make the perfect accompaniment for your coffee all season long–but don’t wait for Christmas time to give them a try!
Oh my gosh, that cartoon is hilarious!! Just remember Aimee, there are many people out there who just want to complain about anything!
Now there is certainly nothing to complain about where your biscotti is concerned! That NEEDS to be on my breakfast table and in my mouth!!
This biscotti looks heavenly Aimee! My sister is the biscotti maker in the family but I may just have to infringe on her turf with this recipe 🙂 Pinned!
Thanks for pinning Trish!! I think you need to show her there is a new biscotti baker in town, YOU!
This biscotti looks amazing, Aimee! I love dunking crunchy cookies into my coffee, and though I’ve only ever made 2 kinds of biscotti, this one’s sure to enter the mix soon. I love cranberry white chocolate scones…another perfect coffee pairing, if you ask me 🙂 Thank you so much for sharing!
Thanks Jelli!!
Love the recipe and that cartoon was soooo funny!! I guess I must be anti-thanksgiving as well being a vegan!! People are so stupid sometimes!! Happy Holidays!
I love Sesame Street as much as the other person, this was absolutely hilarious. If they can’t see it for what it is, a cartoon, then that’s their problem.
Ha you anti-Thanksgiving person you. Better pass me a tray of these so I can forgive you 😉
Love the combination and of course I am drooling over your photos!
“But if he were real, imagine how many people he could feed.” Love this line! You totally just made my morning with that. 🙂
Oh my gosh. Hillarious cartoon – my husband and I needed that laugh! (So what size turkey fryer would you need?) :-p
Am going to try the biscotti… never made it before, wish me luck! Happy Thanksgiving to you!
I first saw that pic on your Instagram and laughed out loud!!
I will have to try this biscotti for my mother she loves the stuff! Great combo of flavors too!
Ok I’m chuckling…. At least you got a reaction 🙂 Have a good thanksgiving tomorrow….
Seems strange to me that some would have been offended by that cartoon–I thought it was hilarious. I do tend to have a more morbid sense of humor but it’s clearly a joke.
Anyway, I’m going to have to try the biscotti recipe except I almost always use fresh cranberries instead of dried–I just love the tartness.
Happy Thanksgiving!
“But if he were real, imagine how many people he could feed.”
Excellent.
The biscotti turned out excellent!! Just finished making 4 batches and thought that would be enough to give away for Christmas goodies….HA! If I can keep my husband out of them, I MIGHT have some leftover. Oh well, he’s a great tester! I’ll be making another 4 batches this week for friends. Thankfully, I have a nut farm with fresh pistachios near by. Thanks for another great recipe!
I thought your Big Bird cartoon was awesome…..cute and funny…. 🙂 lighten up people..lol
I laughed so hard at that cartoon that coffee came out my nose. Top stuff.
thanks for some fabulous recipes and the cartoon is hilarious, I’m sure even big bird would laugh
Oooh oooh! I love cranberries and white chocolate. They are a perfect pair. I really could have had one of these bad boys with my coffee this morning! And what I love is that these would make a perfect gift. Have a great Thanksgiving!
I guess some of us can’t give up childhood friends?!?! Oh well, this biscotti should clear it all up – who wouldn’t love this? For starters, your photos are beautiful and let the cranberries shine. Second, cranberry+pistachio+ white chocolate sounds incredible! I will have to try that flavor combo this week. I had forgotten about biscotti (isn’t that horrible; too obsessed with pumpkin:) but I can’t wait to make this as gifts now! Thank for sharing Ms. Aimee!
Your biscotti always look so delicious! And I thought the picture was hilarious!! But there are people who feel strongly about their cartoon characters!! Hee hee 😉
I love making homemade biscotti! These look so fabulous. Dipping them in white chocolate sounds so awesome.
Pinning!