Coffee-Nut Biscotti

Ingredients:

• 325 g flour;
• 300 g sugar;
• 1.5 teaspoons baking powder;
• 0.5 teaspoon salt;
• 250 g nuts;
• 40 g coffee beans;
• 3 slightly whisked eggs;
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract.

Directions

1. Heat up your oven to 180^oC.
2. Cover the sheet pan with parchment paper.
3. Grind the coffee beans in the mortar.
4. Chop large half of the nuts.
5. Mix all the dry ingredients including coffee and nuts and carefully stir them.
6. Add whisked eggs and vanilla and knead a stiff dough.
7. Put the dough on the surface thoroughly sprinkled with flour.
8. Part the dough into two pieces, shape each of them as a rectangle and flatten slightly. The dough will be sticky, so cover your hands with flour in advance.
9. Bake until golden, about 25-30 minutes.
10. Take off the oven and let it up to 10 minutes to cool.
11. Cut it diagonally into 1 cm thick pieces with the serrated edge knife.
12. Put it back on the sheet pan with the cut part down and bake for another 15-20 minutes. The longer you bake, the more dried and crispy they will become.
13. Take your biscotti out of the oven and let them cool completely.