The Best Biscotti - Apricot And Chocolate (interchangeable

Total Time: 55 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 45 mins

Ingredients

• 1 egg
• 100 g sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
• 125 g plain flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 pinch salt
• 75 g chocolate chips
• 75 g dried apricots, chopped

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to gas mark 4.
• 2 whisk the egg and sugar in a clean bowl until mouse like and leaving ribbons when you pull the whisk out. this may take a 5 minutes, so hang in their (use an electric whisk so your arm doesn't fall off). once the mouse is made, beat in the vanilla
• 3 sieve the flour, baking powder, and salt and fold this gently into the mousse until well combined.
• 4 gently fold in apricots and chocolate
• 5 mould this squishy dough into a long sausage shape either by flouring a work surface and getting sticky shaping it, or by carefully spooning onto a baking sheet lined with greaseproof paper. i prefer the latter as i don't like to waste biscuit mix!
• 6 once on the baking sheet on the paper, sprinkle lightly with a little flour and put in the oven for 25 minutes.
• 7 take out after 25 minutes. let cool for 5 minutes and cut into diagonal wedges approx 1cm wide. put this back into the oven for another 10 minutes.
• 8 take out oven let harden for 5-10 minutes and put in airtight container.
• 9 mess about with recipe so that you can have different flavours.