Banana Pecan Biscotti - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 cup white sugar
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/3 - 1/2 cup mashed banana, about 1 banana
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 large egg
1/3 cup pecans, chopped

Preparation

Preheat oven to 350\u00b0F.
Lightly grease your cookie sheet.
Sift flour and baking powder into a bowl. Add sugar and salt and stir together.
In another bowl combine all the wet ingredients: banana, oil, vanilla and egg.
Pour dry ingredients into wet ones along with pecans; stir together.
Flour a board and turn dough out onto it. Form two 8-inch logs. Put onto cookie sheet and pat down to 1/2 inch thickness.
Bake at 350\u00b0F for 23 minutes.Turn oven down to 250\u00b0F.
Remove logs from cookie sheet and cool for 10 minutes.
Then cut into about 1/2 inch slices and bake 15 minutes at 250\u00b0F.
Turn biscotti over and bake another 15 minutes.
*Biscotti will still be soft but will harden as they cool.