Biscuit Scotty.. Biscotti

So I was looking all over the place for something to make and blog about this weekend and after watching some Sorted I decided on on making a biscotti. The main reason for this is that Talia loves to have tea and there is nothing better with tea then something with a nice crunch.

The original recipe (here) was for an orange and hazelnut biscotti but sadly I don't have any orange or hazelnut. But I did have pecans and vanilla so this is a modified pecan biscotti.

Ingredients:
120g pecans
500g flour
180 g sugar
1.5 tsp baking powder
2 tsp vanilla
4 "small" eggs

The actually recipe is super easier. Just mix everything together and divide into 3 loafs.

Now you may be wondering why I put the word small in quotes. Well the original recipe calls for 3 small eggs and I only had extra large. So I decided to put in 3 extra large eggs instead... but after mixing it all together and ending up with something that was way to dry I ended up adding a 4th egg. So it turns out that what is called "small" in Britan is actual pretty close to extra large in Canada. Who would have guessed.

After dividing it into 3 and spreading them into the biscotti shape they went into the oven to bake for 35 minutes at 320 F.

Once they had completely cooled it was time cut them into thin slices and bake them again. Still at 320 F but for 15 minutes.

The nice thing about biscotti is that because they are double baked they last FOREVER :)

In unrelated news after last weeks baking endeavours I decided that I wanted to pick up some new toys so yesterday I picked up 4 ramekins and an offset spatula. The sad thing is that as you can probably see from the picture below one of the ramekins was slightly larger than the other ones so I have to see about getting it exchanged for the smaller size ones.

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