Cantuccini (Almond Cookies)

Cantuccini (Almond Cookies)
  • INGREDIENTS FOR ABOUT 40 PIECES

    • 280 g all-purpose flour
    • 150 g granulated sugar
    • 130 g almonds with skin
    • 2 eggs
    • grated peel of 1 orange
    • grated peel of 1 lemon
    • vanilla
    • 1 teaspoon of baking ammonia (alternatively, 1 teaspoon of baking powder)
    • 1 pinch of salt
  • Difficulty Level:
  • Ready in 40 minutes

Procedure

Mix together lightly with a fork the eggs, sugar, grated citrus peels, salt, and vanilla, then put it in the machine. Then add the flour and the baking ammonia.

 

Knead for a few minutes at low speed until you obtain a homogeneous dough. If it sticks to your fingers, sprinkle a little flour.

 

Knead well, and towards the end add the almonds with their skins, remove the dough from the machine, divide it in half, and with the help of a little flour, shape it into 2 logs about 3 cm wide.

 

To achieve the perfect shape for the cantucci, it is important not to flatten the log, but to place it on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper in a nice round shape.

 

Bake at 180°C in the middle of the oven for about 15-18 minutes until the logs puff up.

 

At this point, you can slice the logs with a blade, scraper, or knife into pieces about 1.5-2 cm thick.

 

Let them cool! Just out of the oven, they will seem hard, but after a few hours, you will see that they will be crunchy and soft when bitten!