Italian Sweets: Biscotti and Struffoli (Neapolitan Honey Balls)

Test cook Erin McMurrer makes host Bridget Lancaster Struffoli. Tasting expert Jack Bishop challenges Bridget and Julia Collin Davidson to a head-to-head tasting of single origin chocolate. Test cook Becky Hays makes Julia Pistachio-Spice Biscotti.

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– [Narrator] Today on “America’s Test Kitchen.” Erin makes Bridget struffoli. Jack challenges Julia and Bridget to a head-to-head tasting of single origin chocolate. And Becky makes Julia pistachio spiced biscotti. It’s all coming up right here on “America’s Test Kitchen.” – Today we get a little taste of Italy because we’re making struffoli. It’s a Neapolitan treat that takes little balls of fried dough, dips them in honey, and then forms them into shapes. Now, it’s very festive. It’s often served during Christmas or Easter. And Erin’s here.

She’s gonna show us how to make this adorable treat. – This is a true showstopper, Bridget. During development, we’ve really relied on Annie Petito, a coworker and her aunt who make this every year for decades. And they’ve really gave us their insight on how to streamline it and how to make it approachable

So that anybody can make it at home. – Great. – So, we’re gonna start with 10 ounces of all purpose unbleached flour, and I’m gonna add one and three quarter ounces of sugar. So, this is a very lightly sweetened cookie dough that we’re making,

Because it’s gonna be coated with honey in a little bit. – [Bridget] Right. – [Erin] I’m gonna add half a teaspoon of table salt. Because this is a very sweet dessert, we really wanna balance the sweetness by adding the salt. And we’re gonna add a quarter teaspoon of baking powder

To give it a little leavener. – [Bridget] Okay. – I’m just gonna whisk this together. Now, we’re gonna move on to our eggs. – Easy so far. – Easy so far. So, now I’m gonna add three whole eggs that I’m gonna lightly whisk. Okay, so three eggs, lightly beaten, and next comes butter.

One of the ways that we streamline this recipe is that most often butter is creamed into the dough. – Okay. – And that adds little air bubbles and helps it to kinda rise. We found that it really wasn’t important for this recipe. Plus we have the baking powder in there,

And we have the eggs. – Right. – So, we’re gonna let those do the lifting, and we’re just gonna add four tablespoons of melted butter. Next comes two teaspoons of vanilla. Now, all we do is just stir this together to form a dough. Our dough has come together. And now, (bowl clacking)

I’m going to knead it for about 30 seconds. That is where we wanna take it. So, this is a part that can be very complicated. – Okay. – So, a lot of recipes have you take the dough, roll it into a bunch of different ropes,

And then cut a bunch of different like little pieces. Takes quite a bit of time. So, this is one of those streamlining tips that Annie and her aunt shared with us. I’m just gonna cut the dough into six pieces that are about three ounces each, but I’m gonna eyeball it.

You wanna take a piece? – [Bridget] Take a piece of dough? – Absolutely. – All right. – [Erin] Take the piece of dough and press it into a 3 by 5 inch rectangle. And sometimes this dough can be a little tacky, and if it ever is tacky,

You can just lightly spray your hands with vegetable oil, and also your work surface. Now, we’re gonna cut it into six equal strips. First, I like to divide it in half and then cut each half in two-thirds. You can score it. Sometimes it can be tough to kinda see.

So, I like to score it. – These are gonna be teeny tiny. – Teeny tiny cookie, yes. – [Bridget] Score. – [Erin] So, now we’re gonna cut them crosswise into 10 strips. So the reverse, I’m gonna cut this in half. So, I usually like to eyeball it

And I lop off 1/5th of it, and then I cut the rest in half, and then each half quarters. – [Bridget] Now, what happens if I don’t get it perfectly? – It is quite all right. – [Bridget] Okay. – [Erin] This is a very forgiving recipe. – [Bridget] Oh, love it.

– Now, we’re just gonna pick up all these little balls and sprinkle them onto the parchment paper just so that they’re not touching. And you don’t need to roll them into balls. So, we’re just gonna finish this up, and at the end of the day, we’re gonna have 360 dough balls.

It really doesn’t take much time at all. – [Bridget] Especially with two people. – Okay, it is fry time, Bridget. – Yes. – All right? So, I have two quarts of vegetable oil in this Dutch oven. You need a Dutch oven that’s at least six quart in size.

And I have it heated to 350 degrees. We have all of our little cookies over, our little mini dough balls. We wanna fry them in batches. We’re gonna fry about 25 to 30 per batch. Now, I’m just gonna lower these guys into the oil

And just kind of let them break apart a little bit. And I’m gonna stir continuously so that they get evenly golden brown. – Okay. – All right. It’s gonna take about three minutes. – [Bridget] Look how pretty they are. – Are you mesmerized? Yeah. So, these are perfection. (Bridget laughs happily)

I’m just gonna transfer them to my baking pan. So, it’s also important that we maintain the oil temperature of 350 to 360. – Okay. – So, I’m always taking the temperature as we go through each batch, and I’m just gonna continue to cook the rest of these.

And then I’m gonna let them cool completely. – Cool completely. – Yeah. Okay, so we have all of our little tiny fried struffoli. – [Bridget] Okay. – So, I have one cup of honey in a large sauce pan, and I’m just gonna heat this over medium low heat

Until bubbles start to break through the surface and it starts to get very hot. And this is a very important step here, Bridget. Many people just take honey and they coat their struffoli, but that honey just kinda slips off. And you really, when you eat it, it’s very little honey.

So, we want that honey to cling. In order to do so, we’re gonna heat the honey and reduce it a little bit. You can see a bunch of bubbles. – Yes. – That are breaking the surface. – Right. And I’m gonna take it off the heat now. Okay? – Okay. So, now goes the struffoli. And I’m just gonna stir so that the honey in the bottom coats the struffoli all over. Keep them moving. So, now we’re gonna go back over medium low heat. – [Bridge] Okay. – And I’m gonna cook this for about four minutes. And what that’s gonna do

Is the honey’s gonna continue to cook down, tighten up a little bit. It’s gonna cling to our struffoli. – Okay. – And it’s also gonna taste a little bit more intensely honey-like. – Ooh, okay. – Yeah. All right, so it has been about four minutes, Bridget.

And I think you can tell that the struffoli are really nicely coated. That four minutes again is very important. We’re gonna let this cool for about five minutes. This is another very important step. So, these have cooled for about five minutes. So, this is our serving platter,

And I’m gonna just spray this lightly with a little bit of vegetable spray. – Okay. – And this is an important step. So, now I’m just gonna take a towel, a paper towel, and wipe most of it off. I’m gonna leave a thin coating so that later on everything releases nicely.

Gotcha. Okay. – All right. And we’re gonna turn this into the shape of a wreath. So, I’m gonna use this glass, and I’m just gonna take my oiled paper towels it up. – Zhuzh it up. All right. – Okay. We’re gonna start with two tablespoons of nonpareils. And as I mentioned earlier,

That five-minute cool was very important. Had I added these to the hot struffoli, all the color would’ve washed off and it would’ve like created this rainbow effect and really muddied up our struffoli. – Right. – So, we don’t want that. So that’s why the five minute cool is very important.

I’m just gonna stir this so that the nonpareils are evenly distributed and coat the struffoli. – Okay. – Okay. Next, I’m gonna add two tablespoons of candied orange peel. And this is gonna add a nice citrus kind of essence to our whole struffoli. And it’s also gonna add a nice chew.

– Okay, great. – All right. It’s finely chopped. And I’m gonna add a quarter cup of sliced almonds that we toasted earlier. – Okay. – [Erin] This is gonna add a nice nutty flavor and a crunch. – This is the fun part. – This is where you can start to really envision

What it’s gonna look like. It’s really colorful, beautiful, and I don’t wanna over stir it, ’cause again, I don’t want the color to wash off of the nonpareils. – [Bridget] Okay. – Everything’s evenly distributed. Now, building time. I’m just gonna start scooping out our struffoli around the glass,

And you’re gonna see a wreath start to take shape. – [Bridget] Ooh-hoo. – [Erin] So, they might scatter a little bit, but this is a forgiving recipe. And once I have all the struffoli on the platter, I can just kind of move them around before it cools.

– [Bridget] I can see it forming. – Yeah. So this is a wreath. I like natural looking wreath, so it does not have to be perfect at all. So, beautiful, colorful. I want more nonpareils. Isn’t that beautiful? And last but not least, I have eight candy cherries here. So, we’re just gonna kind of put these on randomly. So, we’re gonna now let this cool for about 20 minutes. It’s almost too nice to eat. – It’s adorable. – Beautiful. So, this has cooled for about 20 minutes.

– Okay. – And now, I can remove the glass. – [Bridget] Nice. – [Erin] Would you like to try? – I would love to. – Okay. Dive right in, Bridget. – Awesome. – Yeah. – I got a couple clingers. Oh, you did too. – It’s very floral. – [Bridget] Really floral. – [Erin] Can you get a little orange citrusy flavor? – [Bridget] All right, I’m gonna go for a glossy cherry. – [Erin] I am too. – [Bridget] Oh, this is how I get my fruit. – I’m gonna add a nut.

This is your fruit for the day? One cherry per serving. – [Bridget] The little balls of fried dough are so tender. They still have that nice crust on the outside. – Mm-mm. And the honey just really comes through. And it’s not sticking to my teeth. It’s reduced just enough to hold everything together. – You promised a showstopper.

– Did I deliver? – Every single time you deliver. You know you wanna make this struffoli, and it starts with an easy dough made from melted butter, portion and cut the dough into tiny little squares. And after frying the dough, cook them right in the honey.

Of course, don’t forget to shape it into a wreath and decorate with lots of colorful toppings. So, from “America’s Test Kitchen”, the fun, festive, and fabulous struffoli. – Would you like some more? – Yes. – I’m going in. – At “America’s Test Kitchen” recipe development is serious business. – Head over to americastestkitchen.com

And unlock 14,000 expert developed recipes and 8,000 unbiased product reviews. All rigorously tested by our team. – Access every episode of every season of your favorite cooking shows. That’s 38 seasons of inspiration. – And with the ATK members app, you’ll have 30 years of expertise at your fingertips, anywhere, anytime.

Join us and become a smarter cook. – Start your free all access trial membership at americastestkitchen.com today. – The chocolate market has exploded with single origin bars. Their labels are beautiful and really complex. And boy, they’re expensive. 10 bucks, 12 bucks, even more for a single bar of chocolate. – Wow. – That’s how much I love both of you. – Yeah. (laughs)

– So, I brought three of the bars we tasted. We tasted things from 14 different countries. You can dig in. Everything is delicious. I’m just gonna tell you that upfront. – No wrong answers here. – No wrong answers. These are all fairly high cacao chocolates. Extra bittersweet.

65% all the way up to 77% cacao. So, there’s not a lot of sugar here. There’s a lot of chocolate. – Gorgeous. – And what a single origin chocolate means, it comes from single producer. So, really like wine reflects the climate, the growing conditions. It’s not like an industrial chocolate

Where they’re trying to make the same thing over and over again with the same flavor. – Right. – This is all about, it should be unusual. – And that probably affects the cost too. – Right, and they’re also doing a better job of paying the labor, and really making a commitment

To represent these local communities and their chocolates. – Right. – So, they don’t have vintages yet? – Oh no. They do have vintages. – Well, they do have vintages? Oh, interesting. So, it is really like wine. – It is exactly like wine. Yeah. In fact, they call them harvest because you don’t wanna age the chocolate. But it’s so particular that they want you to know this came from this year, this producer. To make sense of all this chocolate,

Came up with three categories, which may or may not be helpful for you. Super chocolatey, ultra fudgy. The next is what we called herbaceous, funky and earthy. Kind of the most interesting category. There were some, honestly, one that tasted like shiitake mushrooms. Yeah, it was- – So, it was earthy?

– It was earthy in the best possible way. And then, the third category was what we called fruity and acidic. You’re like, “Okay, why did he bring warm water?” So, that’s why we’re in mugs. So, we found that the warm water really just helps open up your taste buds.

And so, you can really appreciate the nuances. And they’re really quite different from each other. – [Bridget] This one, I feel like is the sweetest of the three. – [Jack] Okay. – [Bridget] This one was really chocolate. Chocolate forward, almost ganache. – I will say the cacao content for the three samples

I put on the table is fairly close. And some manufacturers, they’re adding extra cocoa butter so that you get more creaminess. In fact, two of the samples that you’re tasting have extra cocoa butter for extra richness. Because one of the things, as you guys know, when you make a low sugar chocolate,

You can lose some of that creaminess, right? – Yeah. – ‘Cause there’s so much chocolate in there. – That’s right. This one has a red currant thing going on I actually really like because it’s unexpected. But I love all of these. – Every time Bridget says a flavor,

I’m like, “Yeah, I taste that in all of them.” – [Bridget] Hazelnut. – Yeah. – Yeah. Hazelnut. – So, if I asked you to pick a favorite, or do you feel like that’s just so hard here? – It’s not hard. I like B. – Okay. – I like B.

There’s something too fruity about C for me. I don’t love citrusy. It’s not my thing. It’s delicious, but it’s not for me. B is my thing. It’s chocolate. A little nutty. A is delicious too. – Yeah, I’m gonna go between B and A. I think if I had to choose one,

I think I like A a little bit more, because just some of the undertones. It seems a little bit brighter. – All right, well, why don’t I tell you what you just tasted? Sample A from a French chocolatier, François Pralus. Absolutely delicious chocolate. – [Bridget] Definitely. – This chocolate’s actually coming from Ghana.

We thought this was in the ultra fudgy, chocolatey category. – Ganache. – You said ganache. Yes. Bing, bing, bing, bing. One for Bridget. – There we go. (everyone laughs) – The middle chocolate B, this is from a San Francisco company, 9th and Larkin. And this is a 74% cacao chocolate from Fiji.

And this was, remember the kind of herbaceous, funky, nutty, earthy. – Grassy. – You know, grassy. C was in the fruity, acidic category. And this is from another San Francisco chocolatier called Dandelion. This is a 70% cacao chocolate from India. And you said red currants. And I think you said fruity.

And that’s really the notes that you get from it. And it’s so different from B and from A. – I actually really enjoyed it too. – So, there you have it. Single origin chocolates. They’re super exciting. They’re interesting. Try some at your next party. – I’m gonna call you Mr. Goodbar. Hey there, fellow fans of cooking. Wanna stay in the know? – [Julia] Visit americastestkitchen.com and sign up for our free Notes from the Test Kitchen email newsletter. – Get exclusive tips, seasonal recipes, product reviews, and more delivered straight to your inbox. – Sign up for free at americastestkitchen.com. The word biscotti means twice baked in Italian, which refers to the cookie’s unique baking method. The cookie dough is first shaped into a loaf, which is baked. Then, the loaf is sliced, and the slices are returned to the oven to dry through completely

So that they’re perfect for dunking into a cup of coffee or a glass of Vin Santo, which is a delicious Italian wine. – So good. – So good. – We’re gonna be making biscotti today that are appropriately hard and crunchy, but they’re not gonna be jawbreakers.

We are going to make a pistachio spice biscotti today. Something a little bit different. Let’s start with one and a quarter cups of pistachios. And I toasted these in a 350 degree oven. Just lightly toasted for about eight minutes. They’re gonna continue to toast and bake in the cookies.

So, I just wanted to get a tiny bit of color on them. So, I have one and a quarter cups. I’m gonna take a quarter cup out here and we’ll put the remaining cup into the processor. And I just wanna chop these up until they’re coarsely chopped. That’s gonna be about eight pulses. – [Julia] Ooh, smells good. – And now I have that last quarter cup of nuts. And I’m gonna grind these nice and fine. And not only is that going to add some flavor to the cookie, but it’s gonna help ’em make them tender the way we want them. – [Julia] Nice.

– So, let’s grind these for 45 seconds. So, it’s been 45 seconds and I have one and three quarter cups of flour, all purpose. Two teaspoons of baking powder. Quarter teaspoon of salt. Teaspoon of ground cardamom. Lots of spices going in here. – Ooh, cardamom pistachio is a favorite combo of mine.

– Oh, so nice. Together they really compliment each other. Half teaspoon of cloves. Half teaspoon of black pepper to give ’em a little bit of a spicy kick. – Oh, I like that idea. – [Becky] Yep. Quarter teaspoon of cinnamon. And last but not least, a quarter teaspoon of ginger.

– [Julia] That’s a lot of spice. – It is. Now, when we started making these, we were finding that all of the volatile oils and the spices were baking off because the cookies are baked twice. – Makes sense. – So, we really had to amp up the amounts here, so. – Oh, okay.

A lot of spice. But you’re really gonna taste them in the final cookie. So, let’s give this a buzz. Just combine everything about 15 seconds. All right, 15 seconds. Everything is nicely combined. Let’s put it into a bowl here. So, we’re just gonna keep going.

Since we had the food processor out to grind the nuts we’re just gonna make the entire dough in the food processor. – [Julia] Makes sense. – So, I have two large eggs. We wanna get these nice and aerated. I’m gonna beat them for three minutes until they’re nice and fluffy.

And that’s gonna help to open up that crumb and that structure of the cookie as well. It’s been three minutes and we can see the eggs are getting nice and fluffy in there. – Yeah, it really changed texture. – I know. Just two eggs. They really whip up a lot.

So, now let’s add our sugar. I have a cup of sugar. Try not to spill too much. All right. There’s the sugar. Now, I have four tablespoons of melted butter. And too much butter and the cookies will get that soft texture that we don’t want.

But if you don’t add enough, they’re gonna be really hard. So, four tablespoons is just right. And then, a teaspoon of vanilla. And we want just a little more moisture, but no more vanilla. So, I’m gonna add a teaspoon of water. Let’s put this into a bowl.

– I love that it uses the food processor the entire time. Really simplifies the cookie making process. – Yes. These are not complicated at all. – No. – As you’ll see. Okay, I’m gonna add half of our flour mixture to the eggs. I don’t wanna deflate those eggs

That we just took time beating up. So, that’s why I’m adding just half. – And you’re really being careful to fold it in with the flour. – That’s right. I don’t wanna be too aggressive here. All right, that’s pretty good. I’m gonna add the rest of the flour and our chopped up nuts. – Oh, I like it.

So, some of the nuts were ground down into a nut flour, but the rest are left kinda chunky. So, you get nice, hearty pieces of pistachio. – That’s it. We’re gonna get some nice chunks. I’m just working this together till it comes into a dough and we’ll clean up and we’ll come back,

And we’ll shape these. – [Julia] Okay. – Okay, so let’s shape the dough into loaves for the first bake. Then, we’ll slice them up and bake them a second time. – Okay. – So, what I’ve done here is I took a marker and I marked off a 3 by 8 rectangle.

So, I have two of those rectangles and then I sprayed the underside of the parchment with vegetable oil spray so that it’ll stick. So, I’m gonna divide the dough in half ’cause we’re gonna form two loaves here. And the dough’s a little sticky, so I’m gonna flower my hands a little bit.

Now, I’m just gonna use my handy dandy guide here. I’m going to shape this into a perfect 8 by 3 rectangle. – Pass me the bowl. I’ll do the other one. – Yeah, go ahead. Want a little flour? – Yeah. – These will spread out as they bake.

– [Julia] How much do they spread? – Just a little bit so you’ll end up with about a four-inch long cookie. And that’s the perfect size for dunking, so. – All right, so the key is to get it even. – Yeah, it doesn’t have to be perfect. You know me.

– [Julia] (laughs) You know me too. – [Becky] Just wanna fill that rectangle. – All right. – And then I have a little trick here for making it look even better that I’ll show you. – Oh, you do? Is that good then? – [Becky] I think that’s good. – [Julia] Okay.

– So, what I’m gonna do is I’m gonna lightly spray the tops of the cookies with a little vegetable oil spray. – [Julia] Aah. – [Bridget] And then, I’m also gonna spray a spatula. And then, this just kind of magically smooths out the tops. It just makes ’em look really pretty. – [Julia] Yeah, well that way you get nice even slices so that they bake and dry out at the same rate. – That’s exactly right. So, before these go into the oven,

I’m just gonna give them a little brush with some egg white. I beat this with a little bit of salt that helps to denature the proteins so it makes it easier to brush. So, I’m going to put these in for their first bake.

They’re going into a 325 degree oven for about 25 minutes. They’re gonna spread out a little bit and the tops are gonna crack a little bit as well. – [Julia] Great. – Take our recipes and reviews wherever you go with the America’s Test Kitchen mobile app. – [Julia] Fail proof recipes, unbiased equipment reviews, how-to videos, and a vibrant community of like-minded home cooks. – [Bridget] With smart searching and handy tools, you’ll have everything you need to create the most amazing meals.

– Download the America’s Test Kitchen mobile app today. Biscotti are twice baked, making them pleasantly hard and crunchy. But the twice baking also makes it possible for them to turn overly tough and hard to eat. We use nuts to prevent this from happening. Here’s why. For pistachio biscotti,

We first grind the nuts into a fine meal, and then we mix them with all-purpose flour. When this nut flour is added to the liquid ingredients, the flour proteins, glutenin and gliadin form gluten, but the nut meal physically blocks the gluten from linking into a large tough network.

Later when eating a biscato, which is singular for biscotti, the ground pistachio oil lubricates the cookie so that any smaller formations of gluten are able to slide around freely. And this is why our biscotti have a pleasantly tender crunch that won’t break your teeth.

– All right, I baked the loaves for about 25 minutes. And now they’ve been cooling on their baking sheet for 30 minutes. – Mm. Not much of a looker at this point. – They need some more work. (laughs) – They do. – So, it’s time to cut them into individual pieces.

I’m gonna get my ruler so I get the first one right. I wanna do about a half inch piece on a very slight bias. There we go. That looks about right. A serrated knife is really important. Some of them might break a little bit like that guy did. That’s okay.

But if you take your time, you should have good luck with most of them. All right, bow biscotti means twice baked. So, here we go. Let’s do the second bake. – [Julia] I like how you put ’em on a wire rack. That way airflow can get all around the cookie

And really dry it out. – [Becky] Exactly. And now I’m just gonna do our second loaf here. Okay, so I’ll put these back in the oven for 35 minutes. I’m gonna flip them over each one halfway through, and then they’ll be nice and lightly golden brown and crunchy. – [Julia] Great. – All right. Let’s take a peek. It’s been 35 minutes. – Oh, they smell amazing. – They do. All those spices. And you can smell the pistachios too. All right. They’re nice and dried out. They’re nice and golden brown. – [Julia] What a lovely golden color. – [Becky] Yeah, these are perfect. Let’s let these cool completely, and then we’ll come back and we’ll enjoy them. – [Julia] Okay. – It’s time for a cookie and coffee break. – (laughs) I love it. – Right? – Thank you for the coffee.

– [Bridget] Yeah, I like to dunk. I don’t know if you’re a dunker. – [Julia] I am. Especially with biscotti. – [Becky] Although, as I said, these don’t have to be dunked. – [Julia] Okay. – They’re not so hard that you need to soak ’em in a liquid. Right? – Right.

– So, enjoy them without a dunk first. – The spices really come through beautifully. – And you can taste the pistachio. It’s not just there for visual appeal. You can actually taste it, which is rare. – Yeah. – And I love the texture. You can snap it apart. It stays intact. So it’s dunkable, but it’s not a jawbreaker.

– [Becky] I’m gonna go for the dunk this time. – [Julia] Mm. That’s delicious. – Ooh. Mm. It’s good with the coffee. – Mm-mm. – Mm. – And those spices. It got a little bit of cardamom, a little bit of ginger, a little bit of cinnamon. Perfect. – Even the black pepper

Gives us like a tiny bit of heat in the back. – That’s what it was. There’s a little bit of a tickle on my tongue and it’s the black pepper. I love that. – That’s it. Yep. This is a really nice coffee break. – Yes it is. Becky, thank you for making these.

– It was my pleasure. – So, if you wanna make this classic Italian cookie start by grinding some of the nuts into a fine meal, add extra spice that will survive the double bake and add a little bit of melted butter to the dough. From “America’s Test Kitchen”,

A wonderful recipe for pistachio spiced biscotti. You can get this recipe and all the recipes from this season along with select episodes and our product reviews at our website, americastestkitchen.com/tv. Cheers. – Cheers. I’ll cheers you with my cookie. – (laughs) That’s a good one. We hope you enjoyed this video

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