My Tried and True Biscotti Recipe!

Once upon time, many moons ago, I took my husband on a little weekend get away. I told him to pack a bag and we were going away for the weekend. I didn't tell him where we were going. It was a surprise!

We went to The Lost Whale Bed and breakfast over on the coast in Trinidad.
During the afternoon tea time, I was looking through some cookbooks they had from the Inn. They were also serving this chocolate chip biscotti. I wanted to buy the cookbook with this recipe in it,but couldn't find it. So I asked the gal if there was one and she said unfortunately, "no." But she was kind enough to offer me the recipe and said she would copy it down and bring it to my room. After dinner that night, when we went back to our room, there was the recipe taped to my door. I have treasured it ever since.

For many years, I would bake these, package them in a cellophane bag, and make a nice topper for the top. Usually, I would give it out on Valentines day or make them for a Christmas present. Everyone was thrilled when they received their biscotti. This is a well tried and true recipe!!!

It produces a very soft dough.

And it spreads alot during baking.

Let it cool before slicing to get pretty cuts. Other wise the chocolate smears.

I should of waited longer but I'm sort of impatient. Not bad though!

In the box and ready to be sent.

I made a container of Chocolate Hazelnut and a container of Chocolate Chip biscotti. You ll notice I didn't have enough to fill the container with chocolate chip all the way up because I had two big rats little mice that kept nibbling away.

So now that I have share my "secret" tried and true biscotti recipe, I do hope you'll give it a try. And let me know what you think.

Do you have a tried and true recipe that you treasure?

Biscotti

courtesy of The Lost Whale

1 cup butter, melted
2 cups sugar
2 Tablespoons vanilla
2 Tablespoons water
6 eggs
1 Tablespoon baking powder
51/2 cups flour
2 cups chocolate chips, or nuts, or whatever you want!

Cream butter and sugar, add vanilla and water. Add eggs.
Mix in flour and baking powder. stir in chips.

Shape dough into 2 loaves about 4 inches in diameter. Bake at 375 degrees for 20 minutes
Cool. Cut on the diagonal into 1 inch slices.
Bake again at 350 degrees for 15 minutes.



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