Easy chocolate biscotti recipe

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Just came up with it this afternoon:

Make a batch of chocolate brownie batter as you normally would. Add a handful of chocolate chips and crushed pecans for good measure.

Substitute a slightly-too-large 9" round cake pan instead of the 9" x 5" square pan the recipe on the box clearly called for.

Bake at 350F as normal, except forget about it briefly, and leave it in 5 minutes too long.

Let cool, then chip apart with an icepick into pieces you can dip into coffee.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

1. lol ---

way to get a creative name for it

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2. It's actually not too bad

Of course I'm going to eat it anyway -- it's chocolate.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

6. dip it in coffee, yummers!

love the attitude

[kentauros]

3. I'm surprised that an extra five minutes would do that.

Normally, baking is pretty forgiving, and the only thing an additional five minutes would normally do is brown things too much. Drying it out would take longer.

I'm guessing that the use of the larger pan also meant that the batter was too thin in the pan, and it dried out long before you reached that five minute over-bake mark.

What you might consider using in the future, for any pan, is some silicone-coated parchment paper. That makes "de-panning" quick and easy, and then removing the paper is easy, too.

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4. Yup, I was thinking it was the pan

I knew it was way too thin after I poured it. Yet I soldiered on...

I kind of wish I had cut it into sticks before it cooled. It really would have been be a lot like chocolate biscotti that way, lol. The round 'disk' I ended up with is like a huge, crunchy cookie.

[kentauros]

5. Hey, so long as it's edible ;)

I just had an idea, though. You may have seen those stick ice-trays meant to make ice for tall water bottles. They're usually made out of silicone, so they'll be flexible as well as high-temperature. Try one of those next time and make brownie biscotti