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Ingredients (:milk_glass: :egg: :bread:)

  • ¾ cup butter, room temp/softened not melted
  • ¾ cup sugar
  • 3 large eggs, room temp
  • 2 teaspoons peppermint extract
  • 3 + ¼ cup (390g) all-purpose flour
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • ¼ tsp salt
  • 1 cup crushed peppermint candies1

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 350F

Dough prep (~ 10 minutes)

  1. In a medium bowl combine: flour, baking powder, salt, peppermint candy. Set aside
  2. In a large bowl, cream butter & sugar ; 5-7 minutes
  3. Agg eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each egg
  4. Mix in extract
  5. Gradually add the dry bowl, beating until blended. This will be a stiff dough!
    • NOTE: Make sure the candy is pretty evenly distributed!

First bake (~ 50 minutes)

  1. Divide dough in half on two pieces of parchment paper 2 on a baking sheet 3
  2. With lightly floured hands, lightly roll into a log (~ 12" x 2½") and place on parchment paper, giving a few little pats to give it a flatter top.
  3. Bake for ~25 minutes / until golden brown
  4. Carefully (so the loaves don't break) move to wire racks and allow to cool ~ 15 minutes
  5. With a bread knife, cut diagonally into ~ ½" wide slices, rolling to be cut-side down
  6. Bake 6-7 minutes, flip pieces to other side, then bake another 6-7 minutes, until quite firm (they'll harden even more as they cool)
  7. Move to wire racks to cool

Dressing - optional!

If you want to complete the peppermint trifecta:

  1. Crush some more peppermint candy (size doesn't matter here)
  2. Melt some chocolate
  3. Dip the fully cooled biscotti in the chocolate, lay on parchment paper, and sprinkle on peppermint candy
  4. Move to a refigerator to set the chocolate

Taken from Taste of Home

Footnotes

  1. You want the candy pieces to be small (~ ¼" on the long side) and well mixed. Otherwise, when they melt, they become structural weak points. This can make working with the loaves after the first bake tricky. ↩

  2. Since there can be hot candy (read: glue) on the bottom/sides of the loaves, things might get interesting with the parchment paper. I haven't tried it yet. ↩

  3. Ideally use an Air Bake pan, or something similar, to prevent burning the bottom. ↩