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Almond Cookies

Description

Almond CookiesAlmond Cookies
These cookies are delicious and extremely satisfying. They also keep well in an airtight container.

Summary

Prep Time: 1 hours
Recipes Sweet

Ingredients

  • 2 1⁄2 c all-purpose flour
  • 1 1⁄2 t salt
  • 1⁄2 t baking powder
  • 1 c butter (2 sticks)
  • 1 1⁄4 c confectioners’ powdered sugar, sifted, plus more for dusting
  • 1⁄2 T powdered egg replacer, combined with 2 T water
  • 2 t vanilla extract
  • 1⁄4 t almond extract
  • 1 c whole raw almonds, toasted and finely ground in a food processor

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Mix flour, baking powder and salt in a medium bowl and set aside.
  2. Mix butter and sugar until fluffy. Mix in egg replacer and extracts. Add flour mixture and almonds until combined. Water can be added if the dough is too dry. Wrap dough in plastic and refrigerate for about twenty minutes.
  3. Roll dough into walnut-sized balls and press down with the palm of your hand.
  4. Bake cookies on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper for 20 minutes at 350 degrees F.
  5. After cookies have cooled, dust them with powdered sugar.

Egg replacer

HAre Krishna!

What is an egg replacer powder? Can it be used in other baking reciepes?

Haribol!

Snehal

Yes it is used in many recipes

It is a powder and about a teaspoon is equivilant to one egg. You can't make a omlette or anything but in cakes and cookies and things like that it can be used for a binding agent

here is a link to one brand

http://www.ener-g.com/store/detail.aspx?section=8&cat=8&id=97

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