Amaretti
Package these crunchy cookies in a gift box with a pound of your favorite coffee beans. Look for almond paste on your supermarket's baking aisle, and for best results, don't substitute marzipan, which is sweeter and more finely textured, in place of the paste.
Yield: 40 cookies (serving size: 1 cookie)
Ingredients
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 (7-ounce) package almond paste
- 1 teaspoon amaretto (almond-flavored liqueur)
- 2 large egg whites
- 1/4 cup turbinado sugar
Preparation
Preheat oven to 350°.
Place granulated sugar and almond paste in a large bowl; beat with a mixer at medium speed until almond paste is broken into small pieces. Add amaretto and egg whites; beat on high speed 4 minutes or until smooth. Chill batter for 20 minutes.
Drop batter by teaspoonfuls 1 inch apart on parchment paper-lined baking sheets. Sprinkle evenly with turbinado sugar. Bake at 350° for 10 minutes or until edges of cookies are golden brown. Cool completely on pans; carefully remove cookies from parchment. Cool on wire racks.
Nutritional Information
- Calories:
- 48 (26% from fat)
- Fat:
- 1.4g (sat 0.1g,mono 0.9g,poly 0.3g)
- Protein:
- 0.6g
- Carbohydrate:
- 8.6g
- Fiber:
- 0.2g
- Cholesterol:
- 0.0mg
- Iron:
- 0.1mg
- Sodium:
- 3mg
- Calcium:
- 9mg
Member Ratings and Reviews
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I had no problem getting the cookies off of the parchment paper. And I thought they were really good and my husband loved them. Thus the 4 stars. They are crunchy to bite and do stick in my teeth, but I don't mind. I think the flavor is very good and unique. I did place them by tablespoon instead of teaspoon which yielded me 20 cookies instead of 40. And because of that, my cooking time increased to 20 minutes.06/02/08
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Unlike other reviewers, my cookies didn't flatten out at all, but rather stayed as the lumps that fell from the spoon. Dought was extremely sticky. I am wondering if there was an ingredient missing. Cookies were undercooked even after 15 minutes in the oven, however the outside edges were quite brown. Would not make these again due to the high cost of almond paste and the small amount of cookies the recipe made. On the up side, the flaver was good.12/21/07





