This weekend Ivvone, Brilynn, Lis and myself will all be making the same biscotti, another one of those cross blogging events. When I first got the email it said that we were to make whatever biscotti we wanted to. As luck would have it my very good friend E gave me hazelnuts from her dad's tree a couple weeks ago and so I thought some hazelnut biscotti would be lovely. Within hours of receiving the email I had made my biscotti. Only problem was the next day I got an email saying that we were all going to make the same one...opps. In a way I am glad. I have been in a non-baking, non-holiday, non-everything funk lately that I am glad that I am participating so that I have to force myself to bake. I found my recipe on Christmas Cookies dot com. It was hard to find a non-chocolate hazelnut biscotti but I did and I like it a lot. I don't make biscotti very often and I fear I am not that great at it. Being of Scottish decent I am more apt to have shortbread than biscotti with my hot … [Read more...]