BANANA PECAN BISCOTTI

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From Cooking Light website. Something different to make with over-ripe bananas (this is the key to a strong banana flavour--the more spotted the banana the tastier.) The biscotti are very small "baby-finger" sized--probably how they earned a low calorie rating!

Provided by Lee_tah

Categories     Dessert

Time 1h25m

Yield 24 serving(s)

Number Of Ingredients 9

1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 cup white sugar
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/3-1/2 cup mashed banana, about 1 banana
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 large egg
1/3 cup pecans, chopped

Steps:

  • Preheat oven to 350°F.
  • Lightly grease your cookie sheet.
  • Sift flour and baking powder into a bowl. Add sugar and salt and stir together.
  • In another bowl combine all the wet ingredients: banana, oil, vanilla and egg.
  • Pour dry ingredients into wet ones along with pecans; stir together.
  • Flour a board and turn dough out onto it. Form two 8-inch logs. Put onto cookie sheet and pat down to 1/2 inch thickness.
  • Bake at 350°F for 23 minutes.Turn oven down to 250°F.
  • Remove logs from cookie sheet and cool for 10 minutes.
  • Then cut into about 1/2 inch slices and bake 15 minutes at 250°F.
  • Turn biscotti over and bake another 15 minutes.
  • *Biscotti will still be soft but will harden as they cool.

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