Biscotti

Ingredients:
All purpose flour / Maida - 1 cup 
Butter - 150 g
Sugar - 1 cup
baking powder - 1
Egg - 1 Medium
Dry fruits - 100g
Nuts - 3/4 cup
Apple-Pomegranate juice - 1 cup (or quantity needed to soak the dry fruits)
Vanilla extract - 1 spoon

For spice powder:
cinnamon - 3" piece
cloves - 2
cardamom - 6

Preparation:
Keep the butter in room temperature until it becomes soft
Soak the dry fruits in juice for 40 mins
Pre-heat the oven at 400 deg for 30 mins
Dust half of the nuts with flour and keep it aside. Chop the remaining nuts.
Make a nice spice powder with cardamom, cloves, cinnamon and couple of spoons of sugar

Knead the soft butter well with sugar, until it becomes creamy and foamy
Add flour, baking powder, spice powder, vanilla extract, dusted nuts and soaked up dry fruits to butter mix. Mix all ingredients thoroughly without any lumps
Add eggs and knead the mix well to make a light batter

Grease the baking pan with butter. Sprinkle flour over it.
Pour the mix into baking pan. Sprinkle chopped nuts for toppings
Bake it at 350 deg for 14 mins and 365 deg for 16 mins. Mix initially melts and gets baked after sometime. 
Ingredient raises up.
Slowly the colour changes to brown and nice aroma comes out. This is when you can stop baking. 

Take the cookie out of oven
Make the markings with knife to cut it into pieces
leave it open for 20 mins.
Run the edges of pan with knife, tap it and flip it in tray. Take out the cut pieces and store it in airtight container.

Enjoy your evening chai by dunkin' biscotti :P