For May 21

Midnight Crinkles

Lemon Almond Biscotti

both from Dorie Greenspan, Baking:  From My Home to Yours

It is late, and I have to get up early tomorrow for a 7:30 meeting, so this is a short entry.  The midnight crinkles are a very simple cookie, but they have some cinnamon and cloves in them which is a bit of a surprise as you bit into them.  Next time I should add a bit of pepper to wake things up.  The lemon almond biscotti are interesting - the dough has a lot of baking powder in it, and it really slumped and expanded in the baking, so these are flatter than many biscotti I have made.  The recipe in Dorie's book is for almond biscotti, but I added the lemon to add a contrasting flavor.  These baked quite a while for the second bake - maybe too long - so I am still trying to see how the lemon and almond flavors develop.

I am probably not going to be at the Center tomorrow night - I have a hearing in San Diego at 4 - so I am dropping these off in the morning.  We'll see how it goes.