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Sicilian Almond Pastries

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Ingredients
  

  • 4 cups Almond flour (500 g)
  • 1¼ cups sugar (250 g)
  • 1 ¼ cups powdered sugar (250 g)
  • ¾ cup egg white (150g)
  • 2 tbsp honey (45 g)
  • 1 tbsp almond extract

Instructions
 

  • Put the almond flour, cane sugar and powder sugar in a bowl and ms
  • Add the almond extract, the egg whites, and the honey and stir.
  • Knead the dough with your hands until it becomes smooth
  • Let the dough rest in a cool place for 4 or 5 hrs.
    You can also let the dough rest only for 20 min, but when you will bake the pastries they will loose their shape.
  • Preheat the oven at 405°F
  • Grab little pieces of dough and make little balls or different shapes.
  • Roll each cookie in a container full of powder sugar.
    You can add decorations like almonds, cherries (I put one half cherry on each cookie), jem, pieces of pistacious, or candied orange peels.
  • Bake the pastries for 10 or 11 min maximum.
    They will look very soft and not ready, but after letting them cool they will be crunchier on the ouside and very soft on the inside. Don't touch them becasue when hot, they will break. If you bake them longer they will look and taste different.