DOUBLE CHOCOLATE WALNUT BISCOTTI

      Title: DOUBLE CHOCOLATE WALNUT BISCOTTI
  Categories: Chocolate, Italian, Desserts
       Yield: 30 Biscotti
  
       2 c  All-purpose flour
     1/2 c  Unsweetened cocoa powder
       1 ts Baking soda
       1 ts Salt
       6 tb (3/4 stick) unsalted butter,
            -softened
       1 c  Granulated sugar
       2 lg Eggs
       1 c  Walnuts, chopped
     3/4 c  Semisweet chocolate chips
       1 tb Confectioners' sugar
  
   Preheat oven to 350 deg F. and butter and flour a large baking sheet.
   In a bowl, whisk together flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt.
   In another bowl with an electric mixer beat together butter and
   granulated sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs and beat until
   combined well. Stir in flour mixture to form a stiff dough. Stir in
   walnuts and chocolate chips. On prepared baking sheet with floured
   hands, form dough into two slightly flattened logs, each 12 inches
   long and 2 inches wide, and sprinkle with confectioners' sugar. Bake
   logs 35 minutes, or until slightly firm to the touch. Cool biscotti
   on baking sheet 5 minutes. On a cutting board, cut biscotti
   diagonally into 3/4 inch slices. Arrange biscotti, cut sides down, on
   baking sheet and bake until crisp, about 10 minutes. Cool biscotti on
   a rack. Biscotti keep in air-tight containers 1 week and, frozen, 1
   month.
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