Recipe: Christmas almond cookies (Alsace)

Si vous n’avez jamais eu la chance de goûter à ces biscuits alsaciens, ne passez plus un seul Christmas sans combler cette lacune!

Preparing this recipe, including baking, will take about an hour of your time. The ingredients for making about 30 half-moons are 210 grams of semi-salted butter, 280 grams of sifted flour, 100 grams of almond flour, and 70 grams of caster sugar. To finish baking, add icing sugar and vanilla sugar.

Preparation steps:

Gently mix the flour, sugar, almond powder and butter – using a small wooden spatula or your fingertips – to form a soft, smooth dough.

Form small half-moons with the resulting dough and place them on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Leave a little space between the cookies.

Cooking:

Then place in the oven (preheated to 200°C) for about ten minutes. The biscuits should not brown too much.

As soon as they come out of the oven, remove the biscuits from the baking sheet and roll them in a mixture of the two sugars.

Ces biscuits-maison sont assez savoureux et élégants pour être offerts en gift dans une jolie boîte hermétique (en métal, préférablement).