Well, usually when people bring these in and lay them out to share, I will avoid them. They are dry, and crusty.
I tried a scone once, that was gross. And they look similar to a biscotti - dry, crusty. My niece ate a scone once, she said it was good. She is a kid, what does she know anyways?
At any rate, a lady at work brought in some Almond Biscotti back in December, and she came to my desk and said, "Please have one, I made these to share for Christmas." I mean, what was I going to say? No? Yeah right, so I took one.
Eventually I had some down time for some mindless eating. Which would probably be why I am a chubster. And I ate it. It was mighty tasty!!
So tasty, that I asked her for the recipe. And she sent it over. I have been holding on to it ever since.
Until today!
I made them. They are just as delicious as I remembered. Never you mind that I *might* have dropped a loaf on the floor. Good thing I swept and cleaned the kitchen prior to starting any baking today. I think I might make this a habit, for instances such as this.
The thing about biscotti, is you have to bake (and cool) them twice. Once to firm them up, and once after cutting, to dry them out.
The recipe is pretty simple, the only really special things you need are the extracts. Almond and orange extracts. Oh, and the almonds, in the event you didn't have sliced almonds on hand.
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So basically what you do is you whip the eggs and sugar together, while this is happening, combine all the dry ingredients (including finely chopped almonds) in a separate bowl. Once the eggs are a light/pale yellow color - trust me it does get there after about 5 minutes - then you start adding the flour mixture, slowly so it does not create a HUGE flour cloud.
After you get it all together, you plop it down on a flat floured surface and knead a little extra flour into it, and throw it in a couple of loaf pans, bake it, let it cool on a rack, and then cut it into slices, put it on a baking tray, cook for another 12 minutes, let them cool completely, and then BAM! You have biscotti that is perfect to enjoy while you are drinking coffee on a lazy morning. You can find the recipe here, or check out my recipe page and see the other tasty morsels I have on there.
If you wanted to be real fancy, you could melt some chocolate and dip an end into it and let it cool, and enjoy with that little bit of fun too!
If you have tried the Biscotti Mocha at your local Caribou Coffee house, this tastes just like the crumbled biscotti they have on top. I swear. Super delish!
I am planning on bringing them to the nursing home. I am visiting the Hubster's Grandma B back in his hometown. Taking a little mini-road trip, his buddy owns an Auto Shop, and is going to do an alignment on my car, and some other miscellaneous work, so I figured I could visit her while I wait. When I was growing up, that's what you did. When you happened to be in town, you stopped by and visit.
Generally you didn't call before you stopped in, and well, Grandma B doesn't really go out, so the chances of her being there are high, but I wanted her to invite me to eat lunch. So I called, and asked what time lunch was, she said 'dinner' was at 12, I said I would stop by around 1, she said, well you could come by at 12:30, I said sure not a problem (sad face). Then she said, well would you like to have lunch here? I said, "If there is space at tehe table, I would be more than happy to join you." (SCORE!!) She said she would let the staff know, that she would have a guest!
Hopefully it isn't gruel serving day.
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Side note, I was at the gym for 2 hours today. Yeah, for realz. I did week 2 day 2 (W2D2) of the Couch to 5K program (C25K), a Body Works + Abs class, and some more treadmill and some shooting some B-Ball. With the estimated calories burned on my LiveStrong.com Daily Plate, I burned approximately 864 calories.
And based on what I shoved in my face for the rest of the day, I still have 837 calories I *could* consume, and still stay under 1,134 for the day.
So basically a super win! :)
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