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ANISEED BISCOTTI

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Serves: 6

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These crispy and aromatic biscuits are brilliant for breakfast with coffee or after dinner with liqueur.

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Ingredients

  • 1 egg
  • 1 egg white
  • ½ cup vegetable oil
  • ¾ cup granulated sugar
  • 1 teaspoon natural vanilla extract
  • 1 pinch of salt
  • ¾ cup chopped pecan nuts
  • ½ cup desiccated coconut
  • 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour (double sifted)
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder

Method

  1. Preheat oven to 180 degrees C.
  2. In a bowl, mix wet ingredients. Add dry ingredients and nuts.
  3. Mix together with a rubber spatula until you form a stiff oily dough.
  4. With lightly oiled hands, fashion mixture into two logs and place on a non-stick baking tray.
  5. Bake for 30 minutes.
  6.  Remove and cool. When cold, cut logs into diagonal slices, approx ½-1 inch thick.
  7. Place slices onto a baking tray and return to a low oven.
  8. Bake until crisp and brown - approximately 20 minutes, before switching off oven and then allow cooling and drying out in the oven overnight.

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