Double Chocolate Biscotti

I usually do quite a bit of baking around the holiday season. I like giving out trays of sweets as gifts and just having lots of goodies on hand for guests. This year I hardly did any. And now that the holidays are over I feel like baking up a storm! I really wanted to get some biscotti whipped up before Christmas but it didn't happen. I managed to throw a batch together the other day and considering they were my first foray into biscotti-land, I'd say they turned out pretty darn good. I had shopped around for recipes online looking for the most popular/highest reviewed and had my eye on a couple. I ended up using this one though because pretty much all of the ingredients are things I generally have in my pantry. The recipe claims it yields three dozen cookies but I would say that even two is a stretch (I ended up with about 20). I used 1 teaspoon of baking powder instead of 2 following advice I found in comments and I used white chocolate chips instead of squares (4 squares equals out to about 2/3 cup) and because I was feeling a bit adventurous I decided to drizzle some melted chocolate over one side of them. My drizzling skills left much to be desired but the extra chocolate does make them that tiny bit more decadent.

Blueberries!

Here's a picture of Cain hanging out in the fall leaves. What a cutie.

Mom and Dad got me a 5lb. box of blueberries. I had big plans for it. Crisps, pies, cheesecake, muffins. I made a Blueberry Buckle. It was so so SO good.

But then I ate the rest of the box in the next week or two like this:

It's a trick I used to do when I was a kid. Rinse the frozen blueberries off and then pour milk over them and let the milk get all frozen and slushy. I know it's weird. But it's delicious.

Chocolate Cupcakes with Chocolate Frosting

In keeping with the baking theme, tonight I baked cupcakes. I use the word "baking" loosely since I made them from a mix! They are still so delicious though. I obviously will not be including a recipe but I'll pass on a little tip: substitute the water with coffee when making chocolate cake. Happy Friday!