If you have ever made biscotti, you know there are many steps. Then add in “the science”. It took me 6 times with 6 different versions to get to the point where I no longer mulled in my head at night all the different version I hadn’t tried, like using shortening instead of butter, brown sugar instead of regular…..I made 2 versions with only vegetable oil, 2 with only butter, 1 with half butter and half vegetable oil and the original sea level version which came out as hard