Biscotti´s for Valentine's Day

Biscotti´s or twice baked Italian biscuits. These taste especially good when soaked in Espresso and extremely suitable for serving to sweet friends.
Preparing is easy, but takes time.
In this recipe I have used hazelnuts, almonds and dates.

Ingredients:
115 g hazelnuts
55 g almonds
120 g dates
0,5 tsp baking powder
250 g sugar
250 g wheat flour
3  eggs (M size)
0,25 sea salt
grated zest of 1 orange

Chop dates, nuts and almonds to smaller pieces.
Mix flour, sugar, salt and baking powder. Add one by one eggs and mix into even dough. Add dates, nuts, almond and grated orange zest. Knead into even dough.

Heat oven to 140 C (use baking program with fan).
Divide dough into two parts and make two sausage (length  ca 20 cm).
Put sausages to baking plate covered with baking paper and bake in oven ca 40 minutes.

Take Biscotti loafs from oven and let these cool a little. Cut loafs into 1,5 cm thick even slices. Bake slices ca 20 minutes from both sides.
Let Biscotti´s cool down before serving.

Have a nice Valentine' s Day my friends!