Diabetic Ginger Spice Biscotti

Ingredients

Canola oil spray
1-1/4 cups unbleached, all purpose flour
1 cup whole-wheat pastry flour
4 tsp. ground ginger
1 tsp. cinnamon
1-1/2 tsp. baking powder
1/4 tsp. allspice
1/4 tsp. salt
2 large eggs
1/3 cup canola oil
1/4 cup unsweetened apple butter or applesauce
1/2 cup packed dark brown sugar
1/2 cup dried cranberries or other chopped dried fruit

Directions

Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Coat a large cookie sheet with oil spray. Set aside.
Mix dry ingredients together in a bowl. Use a food processor or hand mix eggs with oil and apple butter until blended. Blend in the sugar. Add half of the dry mixture and blend until smooth. Add remaining dry (The dough will be soft and sticky but easy to handle.) Transfer dough to a large bowl. Fold in the dried fruit.
Place one-half of the dough at each end of the cookie sheet. With damp hands, form each piece of dough into a log 3 inches wide and about 3/4-inch high. Place logs about 4 inches apart. (Logs will spread during baking.) Bake 25-30 minutes, or until firm to the touch. Remove from oven and cool 10 minutes. (Leave heat on.)
With a serrated knife, cut each log into 1/2-inch cookies cut on the diagonal. Bake 10 minutes. Turn each cookie over and bake 10 more minutes. Turn off heat and leave biscotti in the oven 10 minutes. Remove and cool on a wire rack.

Mr. Lawrence

Mr. Lawrence, one of Nana's favourite customers manages to fit time in for us twice a day. Every morning at 10:30 he comes in for coffee, but it has to be in a 'big mug' so he gets his bang for his buck - even though we have a bottomless cup! And then again he visits us at 4pm for tea (only English breakfast will do).
Ask him how he's doing, and he'll say 'lousy' with a grin.

And make sure never to steal his table..

He recently celebrated his 93rd birthday. Happy Birthday Mr. Lawrence!

The Breakfast Blog

At Nanas, not only do we bake, but we serve a full breakfast and lunch menu. Heres a few pictures of our baked breakfast goodies:

Try an Almond and cranberry biscotti with your coffee. All our biscotti is made gluten free.

Apple, Cherry or Blueberry danish, drizzled with icing. YUM!

Bagels - We almost never burn them! We carry, Cheese, Multigrain, Whole Wheat, Rasin, Plain & Everything.

And my favourite, The Sausage Roll. (Sausage wrapped in puff pastry) I have one every morning at the bakery- with a bit of cream cheese, it's delish!

These are our Pumpkin & Apple muffins with a buttery crumb topping. We also do, Bran, Rasin Bran, Blueberry, Raspberry, Cranberry, Tropical, Morning Glory, mini Zuccini and Bananna loafs. Doug is always comming up with new ideas.

Mocha Cookie Recipe

Ingredients:

2¼ Cups Flour
½ Cup Sugar
¼ Cup Cocoa Powder
¼ Cup Hot Water
¼ Tsp Salt
1 Tbsp Instant Coffee
4 Tsp Vanilla
1 Cup Butter (Room Temp.)

1.Sift together Flour, Sugar, Cocoa Powder, and Salt
2.Combine hot water, coffee and vanilla and set aside
3.Cream butter until smooth and stir in half of dry mixture and mix
4.Stir in coffee and then add the rest of the dry and combine until gently blended
5.Divide into 2 logs wrap in wax paper and chill for 20 min.
6.Cut into ½" thick slices
7.Bake at 325F for 15-18 min.