Italian Almond Cookies - Pasticcini Alle Mandorle

Anonymous

Updated: 09 Jul, 2018 • 0 • min read

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These classic Italian cookies are real slow to make, too extremely slow to swallow :)
Intensely nutty too perfectly sweet
Chewy on the within too slightly crispy on the outside.

What to a greater extent than could you lot desire inwards a cookie?

I'm too then excited today to portion amongst you lot the recipe of my favorite Italian pasticcini. Pasticcini are small, cookie-size fine pastries that you'd purchase inwards an Italian pasticceria or bakery, by too large served equally a dessert, but also amazing side past times side to steaming-hot loving cup of java or tea. At whatever fourth dimension of the day, really!

Almond pasticcini are a traditional Sicilian pastry, but mutual inwards every purpose of Italy. There are a few variations of these cookies. You tin brand them amongst but almonds, or add together a piddling aroma, similar pistachios, amaretti, orangish extract ... Because my trees inwards the backyard are exploding amongst juicy lemons, inwards today's recipe I added some lemon zest, but similar they exercise inwards Puglia. If you lot endeavour these, I'm certain you'll autumn inwards honey likewise amongst the season combination of almonds too lemons. Truly a agree made inwards heaven!

I recommend using almond flour for these cookies, which is made from lay down blanched almonds. You could also exercise flour repast (generally made amongst whole almonds) but the effect would hold out a piddling to a greater extent than crumbly too non equally soft.
You tin decorate them on come about amongst a whole almond, but similar I did, or a candied cherry. Delicious either way.
And equally a terminal optional-but-highly-recommended touch, coil the almond dough inwards powdered sugar. It gives a crispy outer musical rhythm out when baking, too the fun too unique await of these cookies.

Ready to endeavour this recipe?! If you lot do, I'm sure they'll hold out your novel favorite pasticcini too!

INGREDIENTS:

YIELD: close 22 cookies

- 3 cups (300 gr) of almond flour
- 1 loving cup (200 gr) of sugar
- pinch of salt
- zest of 1 large lemon (or two small)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/4 teaspoon of almond extract
- 3 egg whites (medium eggs)
- powder saccharide for dusting, close 1/4 loving cup (optional)
- about 22 whole almonds (one for each cookie)

PREPARATION:

TIME: close xxx minutes

Preheat the oven to 325° F (165° C).
In a large bowl, mix the almond flour amongst the sugar, tabular array salt too lemon zest.

Add the vanilla extract, almond extract too three egg whites. Mix good until you lot larn a soft too even too then a piddling stick dough. Add to a greater extent than egg white if likewise dry, or a piddling to a greater extent than almond flour if likewise wet.