Lilac Blossom Biscotti

Course: Dessert, Snack

Cuisine: North American

Prep Time: 15

Cook Time: 40

Total Time: 55

Servings: cookies

Calories: 267kcal

Author: Lord Byron's Kitchen

These biscotti are loaded with lilac flavour and scent. Lilac petals are incorporated into the biscotti dough which has been sweetened with homemade lilac sugar. Glazed and topped with more lilacs, these Lilac Blossom Biscotti are light, airy, and delicious! Super easy to make, and with their cheerful inclination, no one could resist! Treat yourself to one of these with a hot tea on a lazy Sunday afternoon.

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Ingredients

6 tablespoons butter, melted
2/3 cup lilac sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
3 teaspoons lilac syrup
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
2 large eggs
2 cups all purpose flour
1 cup lilac petals, plus more for garnish
1 cup white chocolate chips

Instructions

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and set it aside.
Next, in a mixing bowl, beat together the butter, lilac sugar, salt, lilac syrup, and baking powder until well combined and creamy.
Add the eggs and beat them into the batter until well mixed.
Now, add the flour and lilac petals. Beat in until just combined. The dough will be sticky.
Turn the dough out onto the prepared baking sheet and form it into a log. (Dust your hands with flour if the dough is too sticky.) Form a log into a rectangle shape that is roughly 4″ wide and 12″ long.
Bake for 25 minutes.
Remove from the oven and place the baking sheet on a wire cooling rack so that air can circulate around the baking sheet. Allow to cool for 5 minutes.
In the meantime, reduce the heat to 325 degrees F.
Using the parchment paper, slide the log onto a large cutting board. Slice into 3/4″ slices across the width of the log.
Place the slices back onto the baking sheet which has been lined with more parchment paper. Slices are cut side down. Bake for 12 minutes.
Remove from the oven. Carefully turn the cookies over and bake for another 12 minutes.
Remove from oven and allow to cool on the baking sheet for 3-5 minutes. Transfer to wire cooling rack to finish cooling completely.
Once the biscotti are completely cooled, melt the white chocolate and drizzle it over the surface of the biscotti.
Immediately top the biscotti with more lilac petals so that they stick to the melted white chocolate before it hardens.
Allow the chocolate to firm up before packaging the biscotti into a cookie tin or jar.

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