Almond Cookies
Mandelkekse is a recipe with fresh ingredients from the cookie category. Try this and more recipes from Spoonsparrow!
Ingredients
- 1 Vanilla bean
- 200 g Flour
- 100 g ground almonds (peeled)
- 100 g sugar
- 1 pinch salt
- 1 egg
- 20 ml almond liqueur
- 200 g cold butter
- flour (for dusting)
- powdered sugar (for dusting)
Instructions
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1.
Slice the vanilla bean lengthwise with a knife and scrape out the seeds. Mix the flour, almonds, sugar, vanilla seeds, and salt; sift onto a work surface, create a well in the center, crack the egg into it, add the liqueur, and scatter cold butter pieces around the dough. Quickly knead all ingredients by hand into a smooth dough, shape into a ball, wrap in cling film, and refrigerate for about 30 minutes.
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2.
Preheat the oven to 180°C fan.
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3.
Knead the dough again on a floured surface, roll it out to about 0.6 cm thickness, cut round cookies (diameter ~6 cm). Place them on two baking trays lined with parchment paper.
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4.
Bake in the preheated oven for about 10 minutes. Remove, lift the cookies from the tray with the parchment, and let cool. Dust with powdered sugar and store in a tin lined with butter paper until serving.
