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Dave Bell > wrote:
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>I have made biscotti from cake mixes many times.

>Searching for my notes right now, but it basically amounted to adding
>only butter and eggs to the dry mix, no other liquids.

>Googling on <cake mix biscotti> returned a lot of hits...

Dave, thank you very much for this suggestion! I did find some
biscotti recipes and went that route. You were right--only butter
and eggs, plus some extra flour. I used mostly butter, with some
canola oil. I bagged the applesauce idea, since I needed to keep
the dough on the dry side, so it was damn the calories, full speed
ahead! :-) Oh, I did add some dried cranberries (chopped slightly
in the Osterizer to make them smaller) and sliced almonds.

I actually cut back the final baking time (after cutting the sheet
of partly baked dough into biscotti shapes) and left them a little
moist. Really dry biscotti always disintegrate with crumbs all over
the place when I bite into them, which annoys me. :-) But mine were
plenty firm enough to dip partway into a thick powdered-sugar icing.

The icing should be dry enough this morning that I can wrap the
biscotti and get ready to give them to friends.

So anyone else who's looking for a pretty and very easy gift,
biscotti from cake mix are a snap!


Patty