Christmas Low Fat -chocolate Walnut Brownie Biscotti

Total Time: 1 hr 30 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 1 hr 15 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 24
• 2 tablespoons butter (softened)
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 egg (i use "better than egg whites")
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 2/3 cups flour
• 1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 2/3 cup chocolate chips (i used tollhouse red and green colored chocolate chips)
• 1/4 cup chopped walnuts

Recipe

• 1 preheat your oven to 350°f.
• 2 combine your dry ingredients (flour, cocoa, baking powder, and salt) with a whisk or fork.
• 3 beat butter, sugar, egg, egg , and vanilla in a mixer until smooth.
• 4 add the dry ingredient mixture to the wet ingredients and stir gently just until combined.
• 5 fold in chocolate and walnuts.
• 6 divide the dough into two even pieces and shape each section of dough into a rectangle that is about 3.5 x 8 inches.
• 7 place each log a few inches apart onto a sprayed cookie sheet.
• 8 brush with a egg /water mixture and top with coarse red and green sugars.
• 9 bake for 25 minutes or until the top starts to show cracks.
• 10 cool for 10 minutes while lowering the temperature of the oven to 275°f.
• 11 on a cutting board, begin to cut diagonal slices about 3/4-inch thick or as desired using a sharp knife. salvage the ends as much as possible for bite size pieces.
• 12 place pieces cut side up and cook at 275f for another 20 minutes.
• 13 flip cookies and bake for another 20 minutes.
• 14 turn off the oven. let cool on the baking sheet in the oven with the door open. (this lets them get nice & crispy).