I don’t know about you all, but holidays mean family time. I love gatherings with my big, beautiful italian family and creating amazing memories for a lifetime! Desserts in particular are always the center of our family functions (because we are italians and italians love to eat!). The most popular dessert is ALWAYS Grandmom’s biscotti ( not grain-free biscotti ) because grandmom is a specialty cookie artist.
NOTHING beats Grandmom’s cookies, I repeat nothing! She’s got 85 years of biscotti making under her belt and she’s still going strong at 90! Even if I follow her exact recipe, they still don’t turn out as good as hers does (she’s got the magic touch!).
Now I know I’ll never ever be able to compete with Grandmom’s biscotti, but I wanted to make my own healthy version. When I saw the Recipe Redux contest with siggi’s yogurt, I knew this was my calling to make the popular italian holiday cookie (yes with yogurt!).
Siggi’s Yogurt is an icelandic style yogurt that includes simple + delicious ingredients with minimal sugar. Another awesome aspect of siggi’s is that each flavor contains more protein than grams of sugar! Not all of national yogurt brands can say that!
I combined siggi’s amazing quality coconut 2% yogurt with other ingredients to create these healthy + decadent pomegranate dark chocolate Grain-free Biscotti! Seriously, these italian holiday cookies are bursting with flavor and will be perfect on your holiday table!
Pomegranate and Dark Chocolate Grain-free Biscotti
Ingredients
- 2 cups Ottos Cassava Flour
- 1/2 tsp/ baking soda
- 1/2 tsp. cinnamon
- 2 eggs beaten (use 2 flax eggs for a vegan option)
- 1/4 cup coconut oil melted
- 1/4 cup pure maple syrup
- 1 5.3 container Siggi's 2% coconut yogurt*
- 1/2 cup coconut milk
- seed from one pomegranate
- 1/2 cup dark chocolate chunks
- CHOCOLATE COATING:
- 3 Tbsp. coconut oil melted
- 3 Tbsp. cocoa powder
- 1 Tbsp. maple syrup
- 2 Tbsp. shredded coconut
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- In a large bowl, combine flour, baking soda and cinnamon.
- Add in remaining ingredients excluding pomegranates and chocolate and mix to a well-formed dough.
- Carefully fold in pomegranate and chocolate chunks using your hands.
- Place parchment paper on a cooking sheet and add on dough.
- Shape dough into a flat log and bake for 20 minutes.
- Take out of oven and slice diagonally in 1 inch thick strips. Bake for 15 more minutes.
- Combine ingredients for chocolate coating and dip ends of biscotti in. Sprinkle coconut on top.
- Enjoy!
- *for strictly paleo or vegan, sub coconut yogurt or 1/2 cup coconut cream for siggis dairy yogurt
- Adapted from Every Last Bite
[Tweet “An italian holiday is never complete without Biscotti! Try these #grainfree Pomegranate and Dark Chocolate Chunk Biscotti made with @siggisdairy !”]
Oh how cool! I have never made biscotti, and what a combination, this sounds wonderful! Always love pomegranate foods! Thanks for linking up!
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I’ve never made biscotti but I absolutely love them. They remind me of my time in Italy *tear* this sounds like an awesome combo!
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ooh I love biscotti but have never made it myself! Looks delish thanks for sharing it with us for Meatless Monday
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I love biscotti – and I have some siggi’s 2% coconut in my fridge now!! I’m going to get started on my holiday baking early!!
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I adore Biscotti–for a non homemade version, have you ever tried Irene’s? Whole Foods used to carry it but I haven’t seen it in a while ;( The fact that this involves Siggi’s makes it even more up my alley. Totally pinning 😀
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Love seeing yucca flour!! Fantastic pomegranate and chocolate goodness!
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i love it! It’s the most prefect combo!
no i never have but I am def gonna check them out when i go to whole foods this week! siggis is great! thanks so much!
biscotti is the best! I gotta get an early start too 🙂
its so easy to make! thanks!
Biscotti is the bomb.com! I miss Italy too, it’s so damn gorgeous! thanks so much 🙂
thanks so much! The combo is perfect!
I’m 75% Italian so I can 100% get on board with this recipe- looks delicious! I am most definitely pinning and making as part of my Grandpa’s Christmas Gift! Thanks!
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thanks for pinning! Thats awesome, i hope you make it 🙂
Oh yummy, I love biscotti in my coffee 🙂
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From one Italian to another, I LOVE my Grandma’s biscotti. I think our two families would enjoy a cup of coffee + biscotti together 🙂
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yes it’s the perfect pairing for coffee!
biscotti is an Italian favorite! I’m sure they would! 🙂
Loooove me some siggi’s – it’s so great in recipes too <3
siggi’s is awesome! I agree!
This combination looks absolutely delicious!!! I think chocolate and pomegranate should go on everything 🙂
Mind blown. Seriously, can you make some of these for me to pass off to my family that I can actually make biscotti. The one time I tried I made little hockey pucks of love. Maybe the oven was too hot? I dunno, but this is super encouraging, and these pictures are to die for! Good luck with the recipe contest, these are a A+ in my book!
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I can totally relate to not being able to replicate Grandma’s recipes! Or even Mom’s, for that matter. There’s just something special that goes into them. And can you believe that I’ve never really eaten biscotti before? Mind sending me a batch of Grandma’s? 85 years experience totally has me sold!
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awww man i feel bad for ya, biscotti that aren’t hockey pucks taste amazing! I’m guessing that you baked them too long??? if you wanna make biscotti, then you should make these! They are totally fool-proof and that’s saying a lot coming from me haha! Thank you love!
I think that they just put some extra love to make it taste better! i can’t believe you’ve never had biscotti! I wish i could send you some but they are all gone 🙁 I hope you eat some amazing biscotti soon bc those cookies are life-changing 🙂
thank you! It’s amazing!
Love pomegranate & chocolate.. and biscotti! Great flavors.
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thank you!
Hi Bethany & Rachel,
This recipe sounds healthy delicious and so tasty. Thanks for sharing on Real Food Fridays. Pinned & twitted.
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These look lovely! Love the chocolate coating too. Thanks so much for sharing this with us at Savoring Saturdays linky party! We’d love for you to join us again.
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thank you! i will be back
Biscotti is the way to my heart!
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same here! <3
WOW these look delicious because I LOVEEEE my biscottis!
xo,
Sarah Grace
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