Aunt Ellie’s Mandel Bread

This is a great dairy-free recipe (if you use dairy-free chips)

Ingredients:

• 3 eggs

• 1 cup vegetable oil

• 1 cup sugar

• 3.5 cups all purpose flour

• 3 teaspoons baking powder

• Pinch of salt

• 1 teaspoon vanilla

• 1 bag (10-12 oz) of chocolate chips

• Cinnamon sugar to sprinkle on top

Instructions:

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees

2. Mix all the ingredients together (except cinnamon sugar) and form in to 2 loaves on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. To form into loaves, you really need to push the dough together, so it has more of a dough like consistency than a pebble like consistency.

3. Sprinkle the tops with cinnamon sugar (I am VERY generous). About 1 to 1.5 tbsp each loaf.

4. Bake for 30 minutes and then slice into pieces 1 inch thick. 

5. Lay on their sides and sprinkle with more cinnamon sugar - about 1 tbsp for each loaf.

6. Bake for 20 minutes. Let cool and enjoy.

These freeze well - and are the only way I stop myself from eating it all before the guests arrive!