These Cinnamon Apple Biscotti are full of amazing flavor and are easy to prepare thanks to an exciting new product! These make a perfect Rosh Hashanah dessert!
Note: this is a sponsored post on behalf of Muzon Foods. Thank you for supporting the brands and products that I love!
Updated to add availability in Brooklyn. Other location info coming soon.
You all know how much I love apples, and love putting them into recipes. (In fact, I just mentioned it in my previous post!) Well you probably also know how much I love to bake, and to try new baking products. I’ve been known to roam up and down the baking aisle of my local grocery stores, looking for inspiration in the various containers of yummy confections. Chocolate chips, caramel chips, colorful sprinkles and sugar…I love these and enjoy looking for the new recipe potential in all of them.
So you can imagine how excited I was when the folks at Muzon Foods contacted me and asked me to come up with some recipes and ideas for their newest product: Caramelized Apple Dices. From the minute I got my hands on a sample, I was hooked. These are tiny pieces of dried apple, lightly sweetened and a little hard. Not crack-your-teeth hard, but not soft like typical dried apples. And the small size makes them a great option for baking and cooking. As you can imagine, the wheels in my brain immediately started turning, coming up with ideas for this new product. And one of my first thoughts was to make biscotti! Normally, soft and juicy apples wouldn’t work with the hard texture of biscotti, but the caramelized apple dices are the perfect texture for biscotti.
What can I tell you, except that these cookies are all kinds of amazing! They have the cinnamony flavor we all love and associate with apples, plus a very present apple flavor. And the best part? No peeling. No chopping. Just open a package and pour it in! So head out to your local grocery store and look out for this new product by Muzon Foods. You’ll probably find it in the baking aisle, next to all those yummy chips and colorful sprinkles that you’re used to seeing from Muzon.
Looking for more ways to use this great product? Scroll past the recipe for a list of ideas! And come back soon for another original recipe using Caramelized Apple Dices – that one’s going to be some real food.
- ⅓ cup oil (I use canola)
- ¾ cup sugar
- ¼ cup Muzon brown sugar
- 1½ teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon Muzon cinnamon
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 3 eggs
- 3 cups flour
- 1 heaping cup of Muzon Caramelized Apple Dices
- Preheat oven to 350. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper and set aside.
- In the bowl of an electric mixer on a medium speed, beat together the oil and sugars for a minute. Add the baking powder, vanilla, cinnamon, salt and eggs. Beat until smooth and creamy. Scrape the bottom if needed to make sure all ingredients are incorporated.
- Turn the mixer speed to low. Add the flour, one cup at a time, and beat until it's all mixed in. Add the Caramelized Apple Dices and mix until they are incorporated.
- Divide the dough in half, and form two long logs, about 9x3 inches each. (The dough will be sticky, so it will be easiest to form the logs with slightly damp hands.) Leave some room between the logs for spreading.
- Bake at 350 for 30 minutes. Remove from oven and let it cool for about ten minutes, then slice (on a diagonal) into half-inch slices. (They will be pretty soft at this point, so handle with care.)
- Lay the cookie slices out on the pan and bake for ten minutes. Flip all of the cookies over and bake for an additional ten minutes.
More ways to use Caramelized Apple Dices in your baked goods and desserts:
~Use them to replace the finely diced apples in these Apple Chunk Oatmeal Cookies.
~Replace the pecans in these Oatmeal Butterscotch Cookies with the apple dices.
~Add some apple dices to this Maple Pumpkin Granola Recipe.
~Top these Apple Spice Muffins with some Caramelized Apple Dices.
~Garnish these Apple Pie Wontons and Homemade Caramel Sauce with the apple dices.
~Top some vanilla ice cream with caramel sauce and Caramelized Apple Dices.
Click here to see a list of stores in Brooklyn that carry this product.
Disclosure: Muzon Foods compensated me for this post and my time developing and photographing this recipe. However, all opinions, including my excitement over this product, are completely my own. You know I’ll only recommend a product I really like!
Can I not print the recipes that you post?
You sure can! There’s a little “print” button on the top right corner of the recipe box.
I can’t find Muzon brand anywhere. Any suggestions for where or for substituting?
Hi Linda – where do you live? I can try to find out if there’s a store near you that sells it. There are some things you can sub, but they won’t be anywhere near as good as these!
Do you know if Kosher Konnection in Passaic sells this product?
I’m not sure, but ask them! If they don’t sell it, I bet they can get it in.
These look awesome! Can’t wait to try these diced apples- such a cool product. Thanks for the recipe.
Can we use the dried apple chips and just chop or use whole…they do come sweetened and with cinnamon..
You can try…you’ll have to cut them very small. See the picture for the size.
I made the apple cinnamon biscotti….they came put fabulous…I crushed the apple chips and then just mixed them and also added some almond slivers.in….each piece tastes like apple cake…this will be a great hit with my family….Thank you so much…
I no longer live in New York, therefore am not able to find some of the products you mention in a
store or online. Such is the case with Muzon Foods.
I am living near Chapel Hill North Carolina. I think online is the only place, but where???
help???
Your recipes are so tasty to read, I want to make more of them.
Susan
I’m looking into online options, or at least a retailer that will ship. I’ll keep you posted!
Sorry to bother you, but I cannot seem to find this product anywhere. I live in the 08857 zip code area. Are these by chance available online?
Thank you for ALL your great recipes.
Is that near highland park? Glatt 27 has them!
Which stores in brooklyn have them? Preferrably flatbush
Hi
I cannot find the apple discs I live in Rockland County, can you assist me>
thankS
sandi
They are available in Evergreen and Rockland Kosher, as well as other kosher grocery stores.
where in bergen county ( teaneck) can I find the muzon products for the biscotti???? thank you
In teaneck cedar market will probely get it this week
thanks soooooooooooooo much… sounds so exciting !!!!!
what about baltimore?
Hello –
I live in Northern Virginia. I doubt any of the stores here will have them (our Kosher aisles are maybe 5 feet long. Put it this way, they put out Matzah for Rosh Hashanah. I often drive to Silver Spring/Rockville to shop.
Do yow know if Shalom’s or Moti’s carries Muzon Caramelized Apple Discs?
Eva
I checked yesterday and they don’t have it. We don’t get things in here till months later or not at all. I’m trying to figure out what to substitute but no one seems to be getting back to me with my inquiry. Maybe u will have better luck.
I live in 48322 zip code. Do you know of anywhere that sells the muzon products?
Where in brooklyn can i buy the chips??
would love to make these but im sure we dont have these products yet in SS, MD…
please give an idea of what can be substituted for the apple product.
Where in Brooklyn do they sell the apple bits?
Thank you
See the link above for a list of stores.
Definitely want to give these a try!
I’m in South Africa and we definitely don’t have this product. Do you have an alternative I can make or another easy biscotti recipe please?
If you have apple chips, you can try dicing those to use in your biscotti.