I’ve been on a bit of a cookie kick lately. It started with the World Peace cookies and I haven’t been able to shake the urge to make cookies. Thankfully I have coworkers that I can bring my baking excess to. I’m thinking they’re going to extend my maternity leave a little longer if I keep bringing them these baked goodies. 
I decided I needed to venture away from chocolate based treats just to make sure that I wasn’t missing out on something delicious that wasn’t chocolate (blasphemy, right?). Well, I do have a soft spot for shortbread style cookies. Dipped in chocolate though. Enter, pecan sandies. . . essentially a mexican wedding cookie without the powdered sugar on the outside. Sadly, I over-roasted the pecans and these cookies tasted vaguely of burnt popcorn. The texture was perfect and the taste would have been had I not been preoccupied with baby while the pecans were roasting. I love the size and the shape of these – perfect for grabbing a small handful of to munch on. Even though I messed up the pecans, I still feel that recipe is worth passing on:
After the pecan sandies, I thought it might be nice to gift some biscotti to a friend of mine, so I did a bit of research and came up with this recipe. Biscotti seems so fancy, but it’s really so easy! I kept these guys a bit smaller than my last biscotti that I made and I thought they turned out great. Perfect for dunking in a cup of coffee or tea. Loved the almond flavoring.
And of course, both are delicious dipped in chocolate (I couldn’t resist)!
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That’s fun. My mom makes some chocolate hazelnut biscottis…she used to put them in my lunch when I was in school and I had a teacher that used to make fun of me because my mom made us biscottis – he thought it only heightened the fact that I was from the West Coast (other than the tie-die and dream-catcher, feather studded earrings).
That. Is. Awesome.
Do you still have the dream-catcher, feather studded earrings? I’d like to borrow those!
As a lover of all things cookies, I loved reading this post. Hope you continue to have fun with your cookie baking kick.
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