Italian Amaretti Cookies
- Ready In:
- 35mins
- Ingredients:
- 7
- Serves:
-
24
ingredients
- 3 cups ground almonds (almond meal)
- 2 cups sugar
- 4 eggs
- 1⁄2 teaspoon pure almond essence
- 1 tablspoon amaretto liqueur (optional)
- icing sugar for dusting the top of the cookie
- almonds or pistachios for tops cookie
directions
- 1.Position the oven rack so that it is at the bottom of the oven.
- 2.Preheat your oven to 180°C (350°F).
- 3.Check that your ground almonds are as fine as possible. You can always pass them through a blender to make sure.
- 4.In a large mixing bowl, combine the ground almonds, salt and sugar, mixing well with a fork.
- 5.Next mix in the eggs (all at once – no need to beat in advance), and almond essence.
- 6.Line two cookie sheet with baking paper, and using a tablespoon, make round balls of cookie dough and place them on the baking sheet (leaving 2cm of space between each).Press either an almond or pistachio onto thetop of ech cookie.
- 7.Cook for 10 minutes on the lowest rack in the oven, then move the rack to the middle of the oven and bake an additional 5 minutes.Leave to cool on the baking sheet for at least 5 minutes.
- 8.Using a small sieve, sprinkle each cookie with a light dust of powder (icing) sugar.
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Reviews
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These are great! Very sweet, but chewy and mildly flavored. I needed to use up the ground almond I had in the fridge, but only had a cup of it so I quartered the recipe and it still made 12 cookies. The dough was too soft to roll, so I dropped them and baked for 15 mins. Yum. Thanks for another great gluten free recipe!
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