Sunday Afternoon Biscotti

It was a beautiful day today, relatively speaking...sun was shining, and it was not minus 40.  Seriously though  it was lovely and we even got to take the puppy for a long walk (she's so tired, she's still sleeping!).  So my daughter and I, who crave chocolate on the best of days, wanted biscotti.  Not just any biscotti...we wanted good chocolaty biscotti.   So, we did what anybody would do...we made some!  And it was surprisingly easy!  She found a recipe from Allrecipes.com for double chocolate biscotti...who could resist that?

The finished product...dressed up with icing sugar
just to make it look sexy!

Here's what we did (which is of course slightly different than the actual recipe!)

1/2 cup butter

2/3 cup sugar (we used 1/3 white sugar and 1/3 brown sugar)

~cream together butter and sugar, then add:

1/4 cup cocoa powder 

2 teaspoons baking powder

~beat 2 minutes, then add:

2 eggs, one at a time (preferably no shell!)

Now...get that wooden spoon out, and use it to mix the rest:

1 3/4 cup flour

3/4 cup chocolate chips

Four 1-oz squares of white chocolate, chopped (did not have this, so left it out, plus that sounds like too much work)

So mix the flour and chocolate chips and let the dough cool in the fridge for 10 minutes...then shape like this and put on a cookie sheet:

Here's the biscotti right before putting it in the oven to bake....

Bake 20 minutes on 375 convection (or 25 minutes on regular bake, depending on how hot your oven is.  Once done, take out, and cool for 10 minutes on baking sheet and cut in strips like this:

Soooo goooood......

Turn and bake cut-side-down for about 10 more minutes and voila!  You have home-made biscotti.  The original recipe says you have to cool on a wire rack for an hour...I have no wire rack, and I don't have an hour to wait for my treat...so I just waited 10 minutes, and cut with a long non-serrated knife, and it worked beautifully!  

And my house smells......ahhh......like chocolate!  Cheers!  Time for tea!