Cookie Recipes
Almond Cakes
Ingredients
Cakes
- 1/2 pound unsalted butter
- 1/2 cup superfine sugar
- 4 egg yolks
- 3 tablespoons cream
- 4 cups pastry flour
- 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon grated nutmeg
- Confectioners' sugar
Icing
- 2 egg yolks
- 2 tablespoons water
- 3/4 cup confectioners' sugar
- Almond extract or rose water
- 1/2 pound finely chopped blanched almonds
Instructions
- Heat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease cookie sheets.
Cakes
- Cream butter and sugar.
- Beat eggs and add the cream.
- Sift flour and spices together twice. Combine sugar and egg mixtures, then sift in the flour. Work this into a soft dough.
- Dust the work surface with confectioners' sugar and roll out dough 1/4 inch thick. Cut into diamond shapes with a tin cutter or pie crimper and set them on prepared cookie sheets. Bake for 8 to 12 minutes, or until light brown on the bottom. Cool on racks. While the cookies are cooling, reset the oven to 200 degrees F and prepare the icing.
Icing
- Beat egg yolks and water, then sift in confectioners' sugar. Beat until the icing becomes thick and batter-like. If you prefer, you may at this point flavor it with almond extract or rose water. Using a small paintbrush, ice the tops of the cookies and scatter the chopped almonds over them.
- Return the cookies to the oven, and dry the icing for 5 minutes.