{"id":2938,"date":"2011-01-07T08:18:36","date_gmt":"2011-01-07T13:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/?p=2938"},"modified":"2011-01-05T01:15:17","modified_gmt":"2011-01-05T06:15:17","slug":"peanut-butter-brownie-biscotti-cookie-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/07\/peanut-butter-brownie-biscotti-cookie-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Peanut Butter Brownie Biscotti – Cookie #1"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this post I’m participating in Social Parade<\/a><\/i>.<\/p>\n

I don’t mean that as in, these peanut butter brownie biscotti are the #1 cookie, I just mean that they’re the first official cookie in my Cooke Year 2011 series. Yes, I have a cookie series and yes, I know that’s weird.<\/p>\n

I made these first for Christmas, but loved them and tore into them with the kids. I dunked in coffee and they dunked in hot chocolate (how cute is that?!), so I had to make more. Then my husband discovered that he liked biscotti after all, and we tore through the next batch too. The third time, I didn’t even intend to include them in our Christmas cookie tins, and I made them just for us.<\/p>\n

Peanut Butter Brownie Biscotti<\/strong> – from Christmas Cookies Magazine (BHG)<\/a>\"\" (p. 68)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Biscotti<\/em>:
\n1\/3 cup creamy peanut butter
\n1\/4 cup butter, softened
\n2\/3 cup sugar
\n1\/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
\n2 eggs
\n1 tsp vanilla
\n1 3\/4 cups flour
\n1 cup chopped semi-sweet chocolate<\/td>\n		Peanut Butter Frosting<\/em>:
\n1\/2 cup icing sugar
\n2 tbsp peanut butter
\n1-2 tbsp milk<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Start by mixing the peanut butter and butter with a mixer for about 30 seconds, then add sugar, cocoa powder and baking powder. Once it’s combined, beat in eggs and vanilla.<\/p>\n

Then beat in the flour (unless you’ve got a serious mixer, you may need to switch to a wooden spoon at this point), and then stir in the chopped chocolate and you’re ready to shape the dough into loaves.<\/p>\n

Make sure your countertop is floured and divide your dough in half. Shape each half into a 9″ long roll, and flatten them out a little so they’re about 2″ wide. Put them both on a parchment paper lined baking sheet, 3″ apart and bake for 20 minutes. Cool for 1 hour.<\/p>\n

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Slice each baked and cooled log into 1\/2″ thick slices (16 pieces, give or take a couple), arrange on a parchment paper lined baking sheet and bake them for 5-10 minutes more, flip them, and bake for another 5-10 minutes. Sidebar; please note that much like how ‘Tres Leches’ cake (translation: three milk cake) has four kinds of milk in it, ‘biscotti’ (translation: twiced baked) is actually baked three<\/b> times…sorry for digressing. Ahem, moving on.<\/p>\n

Let them cool on a wire rack while you make the icing.<\/p>\n

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To make the icing, stir together 1\/2 cup icing sugar, 2 tablespoons peanut butter and about 1 or 2 tablespoons of milk – just add enough to make the icing the right consistency for dipping. I just dunked them in a little, upside down and set them aside to dry.<\/p>\n

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These froze very well (lasted 2 weeks in the deep freeze before we raided it) and according to the recipe, they can be frozen for 3 months and soak up my Italian roast like no other. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Hopefully, anyone here from Social Parade<\/a> likes my biscotti!<\/p>\n

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