Bear Paw Cookies

Ingredients

• 125 g soft butter
• 125 g sugar
• 1 egg yolk
• 1 Egg white
• 1 pinch salt
• 150 g flour
• 150 g Ground Almonds
• 0.5 tsp cinnamon
• 1 pinch ground cloves
• 1 pinch ground cardamom
• 1 tsp cocoa powder
• butter (for the tin)
• flour (for the tin)

Instructions

1. 1.

   Preheat the oven to 180°C (356°F) with upper and lower heat.

2. 2.

   Beat the soft butter with sugar and egg yolk until fluffy. Whisk the egg white with a pinch of salt until stiff peaks form. Mix flour with ground almonds, cinnamon, cloves, cardamom, and cocoa powder. Gently fold the dry mixture into the egg yolk batter. Fold in the beaten egg whites carefully. Spoon the dough into buttered and floured mini muffin tins and bake on the middle rack for 12-15 minutes.

3. 3.

   After baking, remove the Bear Paw cookies from the tin and cool them on a wire rack. Dust with powdered sugar.