Anise Biscotti

Do you want a fantastic new dessert that you can share with your family or any visiting friends or loved ones who may be around? We’ve got just the thing here! In Kathey Jo’s Kitchen, my husband Rob and I love trying a wide variety of new desserts and recipes, and we fully understand how households can be bored with the same old thing all over again, multiple times over the years. Learning about some of these new dishes may surprise you!

This biscotti could be the dessert dish you and yours have long dreamed of, packing together many choice flavors that are sure to wow the tastebuds of you and yours. Indulge your sweet tooth with something new you’ll want to return to for years to come! You can have this dish prepared for your family in just under an hour, and it’ll be a pleasant and tasty diversion from the mundane! Try it today, and you’re sure to agree.

• 1 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup butter or margarine — softened
• 3 teaspoons anise seed — ground
• 2 teaspoons grated lemon peel
• 2 eggs
• 3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt

Heat oven to 350º. Beat sugar, butter, anise seed, lemon peel and eggs in large bowl with electric mixer on medium

speed, or mix with spoon. Stir in remaining ingredients. Divide dough in half. Shape each half into rectangle, 10 × 3

inches, on ungreased cookie sheet.

Bake about 20 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool on cookie sheet 15 minutes. Cut

crosswise into 1/2-inch slices. Turn slices cut sides down on cookie sheet.

Bake about 15 minutes or until crisp and light brown. Remove from cookie sheet to wire rack.