Christmas Cookie Week Day 7 - Biscotti

Oh hey look the final day of Christmas Cookies! Are you sad? Don't be, just make more Lace Cookies and you'll forget all your griefs.  

Or you could make the final cookie recipe, Biscotti! This is my dad's staple. He is a pro biscotti maker, no joke. 

Plus nothing more Christmas than opening presents with a cup of hot cocoa (or joe) and a couple of biscottis.  So make them! Your family will love you even more!

 Nothing too crazy here, salt, flour, sugar, almonds, eggs, anise extract, anise seeds and baking powder.

 First things first, crush up some seeds.

 Then mix with anise extract and let sit for ten minutes... The smell is intoxicating. 

 Next mix the flour, sugar, baking powder, almonds and salt in a bowl.

 After the ten minutes whisk in the eggs with a metal whisk... the recipe was very very specific.

 All done! Looks like honey mustard! But it doesn't smell like it.

 Mix in the flour with a wooden spoon (also very specific). It'll get tough. You'll probably want to give up.  But keep on keeping on. It'll be worth it.

 Then form into logs and place in the oven!

 Now I forgot to take pictures of when you take out the logs and cut it up to then toast the bottoms of each slice... But meh you get the idea!

Finally, with all cookies you may have made you can put together a nice little cookie basket to give away! That's why I did so I wouldn't scarf down the whole lot of them. Good call.

So all in all, whether you decided to make none of the cookies or all of the cookies, I hope you enjoyed this special little Christmas Cookie adventure I embarked on. And with that I wish you and the everyone else a very Merry Christmas.  If you don't happen to celebrate Christmas then instead I wish you a most wonderful holiday season!


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