Bake Away....

So it was Sunday and I wanted to get my baking gear on so I decided to use up some cooking apples from a colleague at work and make some delicious Apple and Cinnamon muffins. But why stop there? Don't I spend 90p every day buying a biscotti? I wonder how hard they would be to make. Well let me tell you, they are ridiculously EASY! So lets start with biscotti!

Biscotti Ingredients
130g Blanched Almonds
150g Caster Sugar
2 whole eggs
1 egg yolk
240g plain flour (you can use gluten free)
1/2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp vanilla extract

1. Put your oven on to 180 and toast your almonds for 10-12mins until golden. Take them out and leave them to cool before putting them in a plastic bag and bashing the hell out of them!

2. Weigh out your flour, sugar and baking powder in a bowl, add your smashed up almonds and give it a good mix

3. whisk your eggs, yolk and vanilla extract up with a folk, make a well in the dry mixture and work it in until you get a good, but sticky dough
4. Now, line a baking tray with greasproof paper of grease it up with some butter, now make 2 log shapes about 20cm x 6cm x 1.5cm and pop them on the tray (as far apart as possible - these babies spread!)

5. now pop them in the oven for 20mins..

6. Take them out of the oven and reduce the oven temp to 170, place one of the biscotti logs on a chopping board and using a serated knife, slice diagonally into slices, you should get 10 from each log. Return these to the baking tray and pop them back in the oven for 10-15mins until golden and crisp.

These are the perfect elevenses biscuit to have with you tea or a latte and they will keep in an airtight container for up to two weeks!