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Tuesday, December 05, 2006

Almond Biscuits

This is another delicious Italian recipe of biscuits made of macaroons and almonds. Also these biscuits, like cacao biscuits presented in a previous recipe, are perfect for Italian breakfast. In particular they are very good also with a cup of hot chocolate

INGREDIENTS (for 6 people)
250 g of Flour
120 g of Sugar
80 g of Butter
1 Egg
10 Almonds
8 g of Baking powder
5-6 Macaroons

PREPARATION TIME: 15 minutes

COOKING TIME: 10 – 15 minutes

PREPARATION
Preheat the oven to 150°C. In a bowl place the sugar and the butter, mix them until you obtain a kind of cream.
Now add the egg, the crumbled macaroons and the crumbled almonds and mix all together.
At the end add the flour and the backing powder and mix in order to obtain a soft dough.
With the help of a rolling pin roll out on a floured worktop the dough 1 cm thick and cut biscuits as shown in the figure below with the help of cutter of different shape.
Place the biscuits on a baking pan and bake for 10 – 12 minutes.
This the result:
BUON APPETITO!

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