Coffee Shop Style Easy Cake Mix Biscotti

Total Time: 50 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 40 mins

Ingredients

• 1 (18 ounce) box cake mix, your choice of flavor avoid those with pudding in the mix
• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 4 large eggs, room temperature
• 1/2 cup margarine, melted
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract, substitute with whatever suits the cake mix flavour
• 3/4 cup nuts or 3/4 cup chocolate piece

Recipe

• 1 preheat the oven to 350f degrees.
• 2 pour the cake mix into a mixing bowl. stir in sifted all purpose flour.
• 3 make a well in the centre and add the eggs, margarine and vanilla extract.
• 4 with an electric beater mix on medium speed for 2 to 3 minutes until the dough does not stick to the sides of the mixing bowl. it will look and feel like play dough!
• 5 on a lightly floured board, divide dough into two halves.
• 6 roll each half into a log about 1" in diameter.
• 7 roll each log gently to the edge of the board and then continue rolling it onto a lightly sprayed 11â€? x 15â€? baking sheet.
• 8 flatten the top of each cookie log until it is about 3" wide.
• 9 bake for 20 minutes.
• 10 remove baking sheet from the oven and let stand for 10 minutes.
• 11 reduce oven temperature to 325 and do not turn off.
• 12 gently slide one cookie log onto the board that you rolled out the dough on.
• 13 using a serrated knife or better still an electric carving knife, slice each log across the width into 3/4" slices.
• 14 place cookies cut side down back onto the baking sheet and return them to the oven for another 10 minutes.
• 15 remove cookies to cooling rack to cool completely.
• 16 store cooled cookies in an airtight container or freeze.
• 17 variations include:.
• 18 pecan biscotti: butter pecan cake mix - chopped pecans - maple extract.
• 19 apricot biscotti: golden cake mix - chopped dried apricots - toasted slivered almonds - almond extract.
• 20 cranberry biscotti: vanilla cake mix - chopped dried cranberries - toasted slivered almonds - almond extract.
• 21 orange spice biscotti: spice cake mix - walnuts - grated orange zest.
• 22 ginger biscotti: spice cake mix - walnuts - chopped crystalized ginger pieces.
• 23 chocolate-chocolate biscotti: chocolate cake mix - chocolate piece or chips, freeze first so they retain their shape during baking.
• 24 lemon almond biscotti: lemon cake mix - toasted slivered almonds.