Restaurant Recipes
Gran Forno Italian Bakery Favorite Amaretto Cookies
Yield: about 200 cookies using a pastry bag; 40 cookies using spoons
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
- 3 (7 ounce) tubes almond paste
- 1 teaspoon grated lemon or orange zest
- 4 egg whites
- 2 tablespoons confectioners' sugar
Instructions
- Spray baking sheets with no-stick cooking spray and preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
- Combine granulated sugar, almond paste and orange zest using an electric mixer.
- Add the egg whites and beat until totally combined and smooth. Dough should be soft.
- Using a pastry tube, pipe 1/2 inch dots of dough 2 inches apart on a baking sheet. If you don't have a pastry tube or prefer not to use it, you can shape the cookies by using 2 spoons to make scant 1 tablespoon mounds of dough on the baking sheet.
- Bake for 10 minutes or until golden and set.
- Let sit on pan for 5 minutes to cool.
- Remove to wire racks.
- Sprinkle with confectioners' sugar.
Nutrition
Per cookie shaped with pastry bag: 20 calories, 37 percent calories from fat, .34 grams protein, 3 grams carbohydrates, .14 gram total fiber, .83 gram total fat, no cholesterol, 1 milligram sodium
Per cookie shaped with spoon: 100 calories, 37 percent calories from fat, 2 grams protein, 15 grams carbohydrates, .72 gram total fiber, 4 grams total fat, no cholesterol, 7 milligrams sodium
Attribution
Sal Annino - Gran Forno Italian Bakery, Fort Lauderdale, Florida