Dark Chocolate Peppermint Biscotti

How's your Christmas shopping going? As for me - I'm about 87% of the way to having all of my gifts bought and wrapped.🎁 Unlike me, my husband thrives on the hustle and bustle of the last minute Christmas shopping scene.  He's one of the only people I know who actually really enjoys being out amongst the impatient shoppers in crowded stores with long check out lines during the last couple of days leading up to Christmas.😬  I may never understand it but I do  take advantage of his enthusiasm and send him with any last minute gifts that are still on my list every year.📋😅    

It's usually the little things that procrastinate buying the longest.  The small tokens that I hand out to our faithful delivery drivers, holiday party hosts and our super tolerant neighbors.  Typically, these are a combination of purchased and homemade treats.  

If you're needing a last minute gift and you prefer not to go out and face the crazy holiday traffic and chaos of the stores, do what I'm doing and stay home and bake biscotti.😂  I'll be handing out biscotti to lots of friends this year and for whoever needs to hear this, paired with a coffee shop gift card, it makes a great gift for teachers too.😉  

Dark Chocolate Peppermint Biscotti
1/2 cup butter
1 cup sugar
3 eggs
1/2 teaspoon peppermint extract
3 1/4 cups flour
​1 Tablespoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
​3/4 cup crushed peppermint candies
1 cup dark chocolate chips

Cream together butter and sugar until light and fluffy. 

Beat in extract and eggs, one at a time. 

Slowly add in dry ingredients. 

Fold in peppermint candies. 

Divide dough into fourths.

Shape each portion into a log on a silpat lined baking sheet. 

Bake 25 minutes at 350.

Slice each log into 1/2" slices.

Place slices on baking sheet and bake for another 8 minutes.  Flip and bake 8 minutes on the other side. 

Melt chocolate in a shallow bowl and dip bottoms of biscotti in melted chocolate.  Set on foil to set.  

Ciao!

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