Biscotti

I don't know about you, but I'm a coffee lover. And I love the little treats that go along with coffee. Here, I tried my hand at homemade biscotti, and they turned out really good! This is a basic recipe, next time I will try adding more to them.

Biscotti

• 1/2 cup vegetable oil
• One cup white sugar
• Three cups flour
• Three eggs
• One tablespoon baking powder
• Two tablespoons vanilla extracty
• One tablespoon cinnamon

Preheat oven to 375 degrees (oven temps may vary). Lightly grease baking sheet.
In a medium sized bowl, mix oil, eggs, sugar, vanilla extract and cinnamon. In another bowl, mix flour and baking powder. Combine two bowls and mix, forming a dough. (At this point, if using almonds, mix in 1 cup chopped almonds into dough)

Roll dough into a ball, and cut in half.  Form two logs (the length of your baking sheet) and lay on baking sheet side by side.

Using your fingertips, press logs into flat pieces, aiming to get each log about 1/2 inch thick.

Place in the oven and bake 25-30 minutes. Remove from oven and cool to touchable temperature. Slice each log every 1/2 inch to create two rows of several biscotti. Turn biscotti on their sides and bake 6-10 minutes on each side.

Remove from oven, and cool. At this point, you can melt chocolate with a touch of vegetable oil and dip biscotti end in mixture, and leave on parchment paper to harden. These biscotti are great plain, too. For a variation, you may also replace the vanilla extract with almond extract.