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Home » Recipes » Desserts - Dolci

Piña Colada Biscotti A Tropical Delight

Published: Oct 14, 2018 · Modified: Mar 2, 2023 by Marisa Franca · 60 Comments

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A crusty Italian double baked cookie that is given a tropical flavor with the addition of pineapple, coconut and macadamia nuts. If you like Pina coladas you'll love these double baked cookies. #biscotti, #doublebakedcookies, #cookies, #dessert, #Italiancookies, #coconutcookies, #pinacoladacookies

If you like piña coladas, you'll love Piña Colada Biscotti! The pineapple bits, the toasted coconut,  the macadamia nuts will have you dreaming of a tropical island with warm breezes and rich luscious drinks that include little colorful umbrellas stuck inside of the glasses. Absolutely delicious! Unlike the drink though, this Italian cookie recipe doesn't include alcohol,  but it really doesn't matter once you take that first bite. 

Piña Colada Biscotti stacked on a brown plate with slices of dried pineapple all on green and red Christmas wrapping paper.
Piña Colada Biscotti a flavorful twist to the classic Italian double-baked cookies.
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  • How Piña Colada Biscotti began
  • The Christmas cookies tradition
  • More than Christmas cookies
  • Italian double-baked cookies travel well.
  • Piña Colada Biscotti A Tropical Delight
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How Piña Colada Biscotti began

Piña Colada Biscotti is not your usual Italian biscotti flavor,  but who cares?? The biscotti are that good. Isn't it great to let your imagination fly and give your taste buds an exotic treat?

We love combining different flavors instead of just duplicating what we've always done. Each year when we make our double-baked biscotti, we aim for at least one new flavor.

Do you have a favorite biscotti? It seems like every time we come up with a new flavor we proclaim that it's the best one. But that's only until the next new biscotti recipe. They are all great!

Double Chocolate Biscotti are made along with the Piña Colada Biscotti to give as gifts @allourway.co
Double Chocolate Biscotti are going into our Christmas gift packages.

The Christmas cookies tradition

Although we make a variety of biscotti now,  we don't make Christmas sweets like we used to. Christmas cookies, candies, and bread covered the counters and dining table. My heavens, I remember how it was always a challenge to see how many types of cookies and candies I could come up with.

Helen, my dear mother-in-law, would start her cookies even before Thanksgiving. She would make dozens and dozens of sugar cookies and painstakingly paint them in great detail. They were beautiful. When I made and decorated them, after the first two dozen, I lost patience and I ended up slapping some white royal icing on them,  sprinkling them with colored sugar and calling the job done.

Ecco, finito!!!!

Piña Colada Biscotti are Italian cookies that are given a tropical touch with the addition of pineapple, coconut and macadamia nuts @allourway.com
Piña Colada Biscotti are studded with pineapple, coconut, and macadamia nuts, and irresistible.

*sigh* It seems just like yesterday.

Those were the days when we had little ones at home and lots of neighbors to give all those goodies to. Now our kids are all grown and what we once did just kind of evolved into something totally different.

More than Christmas cookies

Yes, we've fallen into creating new traditions. . . soft pretzels and spicy cheese for dipping,  for one.

Soft Pretzels with Spicy Cheese Dip with Party Mix and Piña Colada Biscotti at Christmas @allourway.com
Homemade soft pretzel and spicy cheese are a great gift along with Piña Colada Biscotti

 Believe me, there are absolutely no complaints with this part of the tradition. You see this year we made 12 dozen soft pretzels, each family getting 4 dozen pretzels a piece.

It was a bit of an assembly line here but we enjoyed doing it. With the pretzels, each family gets 2 quarts of spicy cheese dipping sauce. Now, along with the pretzels we also include the double-baked cookies that we made.

Two large roasting pan filled with Party Mix will go along with the Piña Colada Biscotti to give as gifts @allourway.com
Party Mix along with Piña Colada Biscotti makes an ideal Christmas gift

And to top this all off, we divvied up a 5-gallon bucket of Spicy Party Mix that we made and do make every December.

Yes indeed, the grandsons are especially pleased with these traditions. Cookies you can get any time, anywhere, but not nonna and papa's pretzels and spicy cheese dip, party mix, and biscotti.

They believe that there is nothing quite like taking a pretzel out of the freezer, warming it up along with the spicy cheese, then sitting down for a nice relaxing moment and enjoy each and every bite.

The Party Mix is just as popular. One year our oldest grandson made a request for his birthday -- our spicy party mix. His birthday is in June. . . did we make it??

Well of course we did!! He's our grandson 🙂

Piña Colada Biscotti in Gift Bag. An Italian double baked cookie that have pineapple, coconut ad macadamia nuts in it @allourway.com
A cute little sack filled with Piña Colada Biscotti as well as other flavors.

Italian double-baked cookies travel well.

One of the reasons we started making double-baked cookies is because they travel so well, and to be honest, we just didn't know how to reciprocate in the gift-giving department.

Our solution was food. We used to send these Italian cookies and party mix to several family members and friends but eventually, we mutually decided to cut down.

Now we only send one package of biscotti out of town and the rest are given to our immediate family and close neighbors. The Piña Colada biscotti have always been especially popular.

Every time we've ever taken them somewhere for people to sample we've always had many requests for the recipe. We certainly hope you try our Piña Colada Biscotti recipe -- we're certain it will become a favorite.

And if you're ever looking for a fancy Easter or special occasion dessert, make our easy tropical flavored Hummingbird Cake Recipe. It's loaded with delicious mashed ripe bananas, sweet pineapple, toasted coconut and pecans.

More cookies that travel well

  • Italian Chocolate Toto Cookies 
  • Biscotti Six Tempting Flavors 

Everyone loves these cookies!

Tutti a tavola è pronto!

Un caro saluto e alla prossima.

Piña Colada Biscotti with a tropical flavor makes a great gift @allourway.com

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Pina Colada Biscotti on a Brown plate with slices of dried pineapple beside them.

Piña Colada Biscotti A Tropical Delight

We've come a long way from Anise or Vanilla flavored biscotti. The flavors now our countless and our tropical flavor of coconut, pineapple, and macadamia nut double-baked cookie recipe is a favorite. These Italian cookies are not overly sweet but they certainly satisfy those craving something sweet. They are a favorite with family and friends. Try them and see if they don't become a favorite with you too. If you can't get enough of tropical flavors you've got to try Toasted Coconut Pineapple Delight.

And one of our newest treats to enjoy during the holiday season or all year long is our Macadamia Coconut Bread. It's a quick bread and works fantastic as a holiday gift.

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Piña Colada Biscotti a crunchy Italian cookie. Pineapple, coconut and macadamia nuts adds a tropical touch.

Piña Colada Biscotti

A crusty Italian double baked cookie that is given a tropical flavor with the addition of pineapple, coconut and macadamia nuts.
5 from 26 votes
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Course: Dessert, Snack
Cuisine: Italian
Prep Time: 15 minutes minutes
Cook Time: 1 hour hour
Resting time: 25 minutes minutes
Total Time: 1 hour hour 40 minutes minutes
Servings: 22
Calories: 93kcal
Author: Marisa Franca @ All Our Way
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Ingredients

  • 5 Tablespoons melted butter
  • ⅔ cup sugar
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • 2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 2 large eggs
  • 1 cup unbleached all-purpose flour
  • ¾ cup semolina flour fine grind
  • ¾ cup toasted coconut
  • ½ cup chopped dried pineapple
  • ½ chopped macadamia nuts

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 350 F degrees. Using pencil and ruler, draw a 10 ½ X 4 inch rectangle on a piece of kitchen parchment. Spray kitchen parchment with vegetable oil spray on unmarked side and place pencil side down on baking sheet.
  • In a bowl add the semolina flour, all-purpose flour salt and baking powder. Whisk to thoroughly combine.
  • In a food processor mix eggs until lightened in color and almost double in volume, about 3 minutes. With processor running, slowly add sugar until combined, about 15 seconds. Add melted butter and vanilla extract and process until combined, about 10 seconds. Transfer egg mixture to medium bowl. Sprinkle half of the flour mixture over egg mixture and, using spatula, gently fold until just combined. Add remaining flour mixture then the pineapple, coconut and nuts. Gently fold until combined.
  • Using floured hands, form the dough into a 10 ½ X 4 inch rectangle using the penciled lines a s a guide. Spray the loaf lightly with oil spray. Using rubber spatula that is lightly coated with oil spray, smooth tops and sides of the rectangle. Using a sharp knife coated with oil spray, cut the loaf in half making it into two -- 2 X 10 ½ inch loaves. Separate loaves leaving 2 inches between them. Here we put a 4 X 14 inch strip of oiled parchment in-between the loaves, tucking the oiled strip under the cut loaves and leaving the 2 inch gap between the loaves. Bake until loaves are golden and just beginning to crack on top, 25 to 30 minutes, rotating pan halfway through baking.
  • Remove from oven and let cool on baking sheet for 25 minutes. Transfer loaves to cutting board. Gently mist water on top of loaf and on a serrated knife. Slice each loaf on a slight diagonal into ¾ inch-thick-slices. Lay slices, cut side down, about ¼ inches apart on a wire rack set in a rimmed baking sheet. Bake until crisp and lightly golden, about 35 minutes. Let cool completely before serving. Biscotti can b stored in an airtight container for up to 1 month or frozen until ready to serve.

Nutrition

Calories: 93kcal | Carbohydrates: 18g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 14mg | Sodium: 59mg | Potassium: 68mg | Sugar: 9g | Vitamin A: 20IU | Vitamin C: 0.6mg | Calcium: 22mg | Iron: 0.7mg

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