Amaretti biscuits

Name: How to cook Amaretti biscuits - cookcic.com
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 30 min
Cuisine: Us

Introduce

Chef :

Becky

Amaretti biscuits

I needed to use up some egg whites at the weekend and found this recipe for amaretti biscuits. I tried these biscuits on holiday in Italy some years ago and thought they were delicious but had never thought of making them. They have a crisp kind of crust and the inside is really chewy. I thought I'd give them a try and was surprised how super easy and super delicious they were. Will defo make them again. I didn't have any almond extract (very difficult to find in Spain) or vanilla extract (none left), which would have been a natural substitute, so I used lemon extract and it worked just fine.

Ingredient

200 gr.

ground almonds

200 gr.

sugar

heaped desert spoons flour

70 gr.

egg whites

1/2

cdta. lemon extract

1 pinch

salt

Cooking instructions

* Step 1

Put the flour, almonds, sugar and salt in a bowl (I didn't bother with sifting)

* Step 2

Whisk the egg whites. When they are firm add the lemon extract (or almond) to the whites and stir gently

* Step 3

Add the egg white mixture to the bowl. Mix with a spoon and then with your hands to get a smooth dough.

* Step 4

Roll into little balls and lay out on a baking tray lined with grease proof paper. Leave for 15 minutes, so they harden up a little. Put the oven on at 150ºC and put the baking tray in for 15 minutes or until small cracks appear on the top of the biscuits. Take out of the oven and leave 5 minutes on the baking tray.