Coffee Walnut Biscotti

These cookies are called biscotti, but are made in a square pan.  They are baked once, cut in strips and baked again.  If you like walnuts you will love these.

Coffee-Walnut Biscotti

Ingredients

1/4 cup unsalted butter
2 cups walnut pieces
2 Tbsp finely ground dark-roast coffee
3/4 cup sugar
1 cup flour
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/4 tsp almond extract
1/8 tsp salt
2 large eggs
1/4 tsp baking powder

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Grease a 9x9 inch pan.

In a large bowl mix butter, walnut pieces, coffee, sugar, vanilla, almond and slat.  Blend well.  Mix in eggs, then the flour and baking powder.  Stir until a stiff dough forms.

Wet hands and press dough into baking pan.  Bake for 20 minutes.

Remove from oven, cover with a cutting board, and invert.  Remove the pan, and then cut cake in half with a serrated knife.  Cut each half into 8 rectangular strips.  Place strips back in the pan, setting each on one of its thin sides, like dominoes.

Return to oven and bake until golden brown and crisp, 25 minutes.

Makes 16