Lemon, Orange or Hazelnut Biscotti

Biscotti is one of my all time favorite cookies. They are fairly low in sugar, low in fat, kinda hight in protein (for a cookie) and can be crispy to dunk into tea or less crispy to eat on their own. Since I am such a horrible baker (all that measuring is just sooooo tedious) I like ” “recipes” that don’t need to be precise. I usually lose interest in measuring about half way through a recipe and start tossing in random ingredients and lucky for me, biscotti can take this kind of abuse and still turn out wonderful. I also love a recipe you can freely pour in the liquor. The basic recipe pulls off  Lemon, Orange or Hazelnut Biscotti so you can use whatever you have in the pantry or liquor cabinet to create a fast, yummy and festive batch of cookies. You can pretty these up by adding dried cranberries, cherries or apricots. I like them with pistachios too. Like I said, you can toss almost any nut or fruit from your pantry into the basic batter and call it biscotti success. My favorite combos are Limoncello and Lemon Zest, Grand Marnier and Orange Zest, Dried Cranberries and Pistachios or just plain Hazelnuts or Almonds with Almond Extract or Amaretto. Don’t be tempted to dump a bunch of nuts and fruit in to one batch, a simple combination of flavors is best.