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Gallery Chocolate-Pistachio Biscotti Credit: Anna Williams Recipe Summary Servings: 4

Ingredients Ingredient Checklist 6 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened, plus more for baking sheet 2 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for baking sheet 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder 1 teaspoon baking soda 1/4 teaspoon salt 1 cup sugar 2 large eggs 1 cup shelled pistachio nuts 1/2 cup chocolate chips Pistachio ice cream

Cook’s Notes Softer than traditional biscotti, these are baked for a shorter time.

Gallery Chocolate-Pistachio Biscotti Credit: Anna Williams

Recipe Summary Servings: 4

Chocolate-Pistachio Biscotti      Credit: Anna Williams

Chocolate-Pistachio Biscotti

Credit: Anna Williams

Chocolate-Pistachio Biscotti

Recipe Summary Servings: 4

Recipe Summary

Servings: 4

Servings: 4

4

Ingredients

Ingredients

  • 6 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened, plus more for baking sheet 2 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for baking sheet 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder 1 teaspoon baking soda 1/4 teaspoon salt 1 cup sugar 2 large eggs 1 cup shelled pistachio nuts 1/2 cup chocolate chips Pistachio ice cream

Directions

Heat oven to 350 degrees. Butter and flour a baking sheet; set aside.

In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt. In the bowl of an electric mixer, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs; beat until well combined, scraping down sides of bowl if necessary. Add flour mixture, and stir to form a stiff dough. Stir in pistachios and chocolate chips.

Transfer dough to prepared baking sheet; form into a slightly flattened log, about 12 by 4 inches. Bake until slightly firm, about 25 minutes. Cool about 5 minutes. Reduce oven to 300 degrees.

On a cutting board, using a sharp serrated knife, cut biscotti diagonally into 1-inch-thick slices. Arrange biscotti, cut sides down, on baking sheet, and bake until crisp but still slightly soft in the center, about 8 minutes. Serve with pistachio ice cream.

Cook’s Notes Softer than traditional biscotti, these are baked for a shorter time.

Cook’s Notes

Softer than traditional biscotti, these are baked for a shorter time.

Reviews (30)

 Add Rating & Review     135 Ratings   5 star values:        39    4 star values:        51    3 star values:        28    2 star values:        13    1 star values:        4

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Add Rating & Review     135 Ratings   5 star values:        39    4 star values:        51    3 star values:        28    2 star values:        13    1 star values:        4

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135 Ratings 5 star values: 39 4 star values: 51 3 star values: 28 2 star values: 13 1 star values: 4

135 Ratings 5 star values: 39 4 star values: 51 3 star values: 28 2 star values: 13 1 star values: 4

135 Ratings 5 star values: 39 4 star values: 51 3 star values: 28 2 star values: 13 1 star values: 4

  • 5 star values: 39 4 star values: 51 3 star values: 28 2 star values: 13 1 star values: 4

    Martha Stewart Member     Rating: 4 stars       11/13/2016   I had this recipe in my folder for so long & came across it today. I had all the ingredients. Just made. So easy & so good. I added dried cranberries & reduced the nuts just a bit. The next time I think I will make 2 smal loafs so this way the slices will be smaller.  

Martha Stewart Member     Rating: Unrated       10/04/2016   Love this recipe now our families favorite. I leave out pistachios I added 1/2 c. Dried cranberries 1 1/2 the. Cherry flavoring 1 c. Mini semi sweet chocolate chips. Delicious ! And sometimes don't bake twice for softer in the middle biscotti. Sometimes I add a few cranberries pushed in on top. Everyone LOVES them !!!!!  

Martha Stewart Member     Rating: Unrated       10/04/2016   Love this recipe now our families favorite. I added 1/2 c. Dried cranberries 1 1/2 the. Cherry flavoring 1 c. Mini semi sweet chocolate chips. Delicious ! And sometimes don't bake twice for softer in the middle biscotti. Sometimes I add a few cranberries pushed in on top. Everyone LOVES them !!!!!  

Martha Stewart Member     Rating: Unrated       07/28/2015   I made this biscotti thinner, and cut it into squrare shaped chunks (not a thin slice). Turned out really nice. Easy to make, and also quick.  

Martha Stewart Member     Rating: 5 stars       07/02/2013   My husband and I loved these biscotti. However, I left out the nuts because I find nuts make the final product more difficult to cut. I baked the dough on parchment paper instead of buttering and flouring cookie sheet--easier cleanup. Also, I used a large pizza cutting wheel while baked dough was on parchment on cookie sheets, starting in the center and then at the end of each slick to cut thru the dough. This left very little crumbles. Then proceeded to finish the baking of the cut edges.  

Martha Stewart Member     Rating: Unrated       06/17/2011   If you form the dough into balls, a bit smaller than a walnut and bake them at 350 for about 12 minutes, they are tremendous. If I had extra pistachios I would have decorated each cookie with a nut.  

Martha Stewart Member     Rating: Unrated       12/16/2010   These are a bit soft on the inside, but they taste wonderful. Not your ordinary biscotti. They came out crisp on the outside, almost gooey on the inside. They have a different taste than brownies or cookies. Definitely worth making!  

Martha Stewart Member     Rating: Unrated       05/04/2010   I did not like this recipe. As in the photo, the cookies were not baked on the inside, which is fine for a brownie but difficult to manage for biscotti. The log cracked when I moved it to the rack, and another 10 minutes per side did not cook these enough to be done. I didn't have time to bake them even longer than that. I made the recipe as was listed, except I replaced the nuts with dried cranberries. Great flavour combination but the texture and visual appeal get a big thumbs down!  

Martha Stewart Member     Rating: Unrated       04/25/2010   I tried this recipe, it took longer than 25 mins for it to be hard enough to handle. I kept it for extra 10 mins..cooled completely before i sliced it. It was still slightly crumbly but I managed to slice it. I added slivered almonds and a couple of drops of almond extract in place of pistachio. Tastes great..would make a great cookie dough! Thanks!  

Martha Stewart Member     Rating: Unrated       07/31/2009   This recipe is the perfect treat at the end of the day!  

Martha Stewart Member     Rating: Unrated       05/15/2009   These are delicious and esy to make. A great compliment with a cup of coffee!  

Martha Stewart Member     Rating: Unrated       11/15/2008   This sounds good I was looking for a recipe for chocolate biscotti that I found in one of Martha's Homade Christmas books. It was put in a canning jar for the gift. I wish I had that recipe it was great but I lost my book. I used to have them all but they were lost when I moved It was probably 8 to 10 yrs ago If anyone has one I would love to hear from you thanks I am patti_164  

Martha Stewart Member     Rating: Unrated       10/22/2008   I TRIDE THIS RECIPE. IT WAS EASY TO DO ,DIDN'T HAVE ANY TROUBLE. I USED ALMONDS WITH THIS RECIPE, EVERYONE LOVED IT.  

Martha Stewart Member     Rating: Unrated       09/07/2008   I love these. Very quick  

Martha Stewart Member     Rating: Unrated       09/07/2008   I am 13 and tried this recipe. It was so simple and yummy. Everyone in my family loved it. the only difficult part was transferring the biscotti to the cooling rack. I made mine without nuts and added more chocolate chips. It was the best biscotti I have ever tasted!  

Martha Stewart Member     Rating: Unrated       09/07/2008   This recipe is very easy. I experimented without adding nuts and it is great. There is not very much cleanup and everybody in my family loves it (even the pickiest one!) the only thing I had trouble with is transferring it to the cooling rack.  

Martha Stewart Member     Rating: Unrated       08/30/2008   What really gets me is I shelled the pistachios, spent just shy of an hour doing that. I will never make this again.  

Martha Stewart Member     Rating: Unrated       08/30/2008   2nd batch I doubled but omitted the nuts and choc chips and zested 2 oranges, and chopped up about 11/4 cup of dried apricots. Smells delicious but if the first batch didn't work I guess I will try just making them cookies. Darn I really wanted these to work for my morning coffee dunks.  

Martha Stewart Member     Rating: Unrated       08/30/2008   I just removed the sliced ones from the oven, turned them over and zap fell apart into chunks and these look terrible. I am baking per the 15 min on the other side as well. Before these went into the oven the first time in the log I really patted this together to hold. With whole pistachios I knew this may not hold together. The choc chips melt making the centers very soft and uncuttable into something nice per the above picture. I changed the dbl 2nd batch I am wondering what to do with.  

Martha Stewart Member     Rating: Unrated       08/30/2008   I am having an awful time with these. Crumbling while cutting, so I put them back into the oven for another 10 min. Waited 10 min to try to recut and again same problem. I went ahead and smuched them together and baking the sliced ones now longer than indicated. And stupid me, went ahead and made up a double batch when the first batch was baking. Now what do I do..  

Martha Stewart Member     Rating: Unrated       08/29/2008   Agree with these being a bit soft if baked as directed in recipe. I actually had a difficult time cutting them after the first baking, they were crumbling apart on the outside but moist on the inside. So I too ended up cutting them in half. As for the second baking, I actually baked them about 10-15 minutes on each side which is quite a bit more than directed. However they are delish once they are done!  

Martha Stewart Member     Rating: Unrated       08/25/2008   I'm with pah921 -- biscotti should be crisper. But my kids, particularly the picky 5-year-old, liked these better than the traditional variety. I agree, though, that they're huge -- I wound up cutting them in half, too, though I think part of the reason mine spread so much were because of alterations I had to make to the recipe to make it egg-free. And I used almonds instead of pistachios, also due to allergies.  

Martha Stewart Member     Rating: Unrated       08/23/2008   These came out great. I was afraid they woul d be too soft, but after I baked them the second time, they were perfect. I got a lot of them also.  

Martha Stewart Member     Rating: Unrated       08/23/2008   This sounds great, i love pistachio's, going to have to give it a try  

Martha Stewart Member     Rating: Unrated       08/23/2008   The recipe did state that these are softer than the traditional biscotti. They are delicious!  

Martha Stewart Member     Rating: Unrated       08/23/2008   I found these biscotti to be way too soft for my liking. The flavor/nut combination was tasty, but after the second baking they were still very soft. I ended up baking them for a third time the next day, because to me biscotti need to be crisp! Otherwise you should call them chocolate pistachio brownies! They were also very large and difficult to handle. I cut most of them in half and dipped the cut end in white chocolate.  

Martha Stewart Member     Rating: Unrated       08/23/2008   I made these this morning and my children and husband gobbled them up!  

Martha Stewart Member     Rating: Unrated       08/23/2008   I wonder how these would be as just "Chocolate Biscotti?" Anyone ever make them without the nuts?  

Martha Stewart Member     Rating: Unrated       08/23/2008   I wonder how these would be if you omitted the nuts? I know it's "Pistachio" Biscotti...but has anyone tried it as just Chocolate Biscotti?  

Martha Stewart Member     Rating: Unrated       12/26/2007   These are excellant and stay very well in the freezer and an air tight container.. Best biscotti also the pistacio one is excellant.... Ann

    Martha Stewart Member

    Rating: 4 stars 11/13/2016

I had this recipe in my folder for so long & came across it today. I had all the ingredients. Just made. So easy & so good. I added dried cranberries & reduced the nuts just a bit. The next time I think I will make 2 smal loafs so this way the slices will be smaller.

Rating: 4 stars

Rating: Unrated 10/04/2016

Love this recipe now our families favorite. I leave out pistachios I added 1/2 c. Dried cranberries 1 1/2 the. Cherry flavoring 1 c. Mini semi sweet chocolate chips. Delicious ! And sometimes don’t bake twice for softer in the middle biscotti. Sometimes I add a few cranberries pushed in on top. Everyone LOVES them !!!!!

Rating: Unrated

Love this recipe now our families favorite. I added 1/2 c. Dried cranberries 1 1/2 the. Cherry flavoring 1 c. Mini semi sweet chocolate chips. Delicious ! And sometimes don’t bake twice for softer in the middle biscotti. Sometimes I add a few cranberries pushed in on top. Everyone LOVES them !!!!!

Rating: Unrated 07/28/2015

I made this biscotti thinner, and cut it into squrare shaped chunks (not a thin slice). Turned out really nice. Easy to make, and also quick.

Rating: 5 stars 07/02/2013

My husband and I loved these biscotti. However, I left out the nuts because I find nuts make the final product more difficult to cut. I baked the dough on parchment paper instead of buttering and flouring cookie sheet–easier cleanup. Also, I used a large pizza cutting wheel while baked dough was on parchment on cookie sheets, starting in the center and then at the end of each slick to cut thru the dough. This left very little crumbles. Then proceeded to finish the baking of the cut edges.

Rating: 5 stars

Rating: Unrated 06/17/2011

If you form the dough into balls, a bit smaller than a walnut and bake them at 350 for about 12 minutes, they are tremendous. If I had extra pistachios I would have decorated each cookie with a nut.

Rating: Unrated 12/16/2010

These are a bit soft on the inside, but they taste wonderful. Not your ordinary biscotti. They came out crisp on the outside, almost gooey on the inside. They have a different taste than brownies or cookies. Definitely worth making!

Rating: Unrated 05/04/2010

I did not like this recipe. As in the photo, the cookies were not baked on the inside, which is fine for a brownie but difficult to manage for biscotti. The log cracked when I moved it to the rack, and another 10 minutes per side did not cook these enough to be done. I didn’t have time to bake them even longer than that. I made the recipe as was listed, except I replaced the nuts with dried cranberries. Great flavour combination but the texture and visual appeal get a big thumbs down!

Rating: Unrated 04/25/2010

I tried this recipe, it took longer than 25 mins for it to be hard enough to handle. I kept it for extra 10 mins..cooled completely before i sliced it. It was still slightly crumbly but I managed to slice it. I added slivered almonds and a couple of drops of almond extract in place of pistachio. Tastes great..would make a great cookie dough! Thanks!

Rating: Unrated 07/31/2009

This recipe is the perfect treat at the end of the day!

Rating: Unrated 05/15/2009

These are delicious and esy to make. A great compliment with a cup of coffee!

Rating: Unrated 11/15/2008

This sounds good I was looking for a recipe for chocolate biscotti that I found in one of Martha’s Homade Christmas books. It was put in a canning jar for the gift. I wish I had that recipe it was great but I lost my book. I used to have them all but they were lost when I moved It was probably 8 to 10 yrs ago If anyone has one I would love to hear from you thanks I am patti_164

Rating: Unrated 10/22/2008

I TRIDE THIS RECIPE. IT WAS EASY TO DO ,DIDN’T HAVE ANY TROUBLE. I USED ALMONDS WITH THIS RECIPE, EVERYONE LOVED IT.

Rating: Unrated 09/07/2008

I love these. Very quick

I am 13 and tried this recipe. It was so simple and yummy. Everyone in my family loved it. the only difficult part was transferring the biscotti to the cooling rack. I made mine without nuts and added more chocolate chips. It was the best biscotti I have ever tasted!

This recipe is very easy. I experimented without adding nuts and it is great. There is not very much cleanup and everybody in my family loves it (even the pickiest one!) the only thing I had trouble with is transferring it to the cooling rack.

Rating: Unrated 08/30/2008

What really gets me is I shelled the pistachios, spent just shy of an hour doing that. I will never make this again.

2nd batch I doubled but omitted the nuts and choc chips and zested 2 oranges, and chopped up about 11/4 cup of dried apricots. Smells delicious but if the first batch didn’t work I guess I will try just making them cookies. Darn I really wanted these to work for my morning coffee dunks.

I just removed the sliced ones from the oven, turned them over and zap fell apart into chunks and these look terrible. I am baking per the 15 min on the other side as well. Before these went into the oven the first time in the log I really patted this together to hold. With whole pistachios I knew this may not hold together. The choc chips melt making the centers very soft and uncuttable into something nice per the above picture. I changed the dbl 2nd batch I am wondering what to do with.

I am having an awful time with these. Crumbling while cutting, so I put them back into the oven for another 10 min. Waited 10 min to try to recut and again same problem. I went ahead and smuched them together and baking the sliced ones now longer than indicated. And stupid me, went ahead and made up a double batch when the first batch was baking. Now what do I do..

Rating: Unrated 08/29/2008

Agree with these being a bit soft if baked as directed in recipe. I actually had a difficult time cutting them after the first baking, they were crumbling apart on the outside but moist on the inside. So I too ended up cutting them in half. As for the second baking, I actually baked them about 10-15 minutes on each side which is quite a bit more than directed. However they are delish once they are done!

Rating: Unrated 08/25/2008

I’m with pah921 – biscotti should be crisper. But my kids, particularly the picky 5-year-old, liked these better than the traditional variety. I agree, though, that they’re huge – I wound up cutting them in half, too, though I think part of the reason mine spread so much were because of alterations I had to make to the recipe to make it egg-free. And I used almonds instead of pistachios, also due to allergies.

Rating: Unrated 08/23/2008

These came out great. I was afraid they woul d be too soft, but after I baked them the second time, they were perfect. I got a lot of them also.

This sounds great, i love pistachio’s, going to have to give it a try

The recipe did state that these are softer than the traditional biscotti. They are delicious!

I found these biscotti to be way too soft for my liking. The flavor/nut combination was tasty, but after the second baking they were still very soft. I ended up baking them for a third time the next day, because to me biscotti need to be crisp! Otherwise you should call them chocolate pistachio brownies! They were also very large and difficult to handle. I cut most of them in half and dipped the cut end in white chocolate.

I made these this morning and my children and husband gobbled them up!

I wonder how these would be as just “Chocolate Biscotti?” Anyone ever make them without the nuts?

I wonder how these would be if you omitted the nuts? I know it’s “Pistachio” Biscotti…but has anyone tried it as just Chocolate Biscotti?

Rating: Unrated 12/26/2007

These are excellant and stay very well in the freezer and an air tight container.. Best biscotti also the pistacio one is excellant…. Ann

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