THING: Biscotti

From: The Art of Crunch Biscotti

Made by: Ronda Hamlin

Since: 2000

Right here in: Tacoma

I'm not: Kidding

When I say: Yum!

This stuff: Is delicious

By day, Ronda Hamlin beautifies faces by means of cosmetics.  With powder brush in hand, a smile on her face and with experience in mind, Hamlin brings home a steady paycheck from one of the nation's largest and best retail entities.

By night, Hamlin makes wonderful, amazing, yet-to-be-world-famous biscotti. No known as The Art of Crunch Biscotti, Hamlin's is a biscotti that has risen to great heights of local popularity since she introduced it to co-workers in 2000.

So amazing, in fact, is Hamlin's cranberry-white chocolate biscotti that it won a blue ribbon at the Western Washington Fair (Puyallup Fair) in 2002.

"That first Christmas in 2000 I sold about 20 dozen orders of biscotti.  Last Christmas I sold over 200 dozen biscotti," Hamlin says with a smile.

Steph DeRosa's full feature on The Art of Crunch Biscotti awaits in the Restaurant Section at weeklyvolcano.com.