Baci di Dama

Name: Baci di Dama (Ladies’ Kisses)
Yield: About 7 dozen tiny cookies
Cuisine: Italy
Ingredients: ½ teaspoon almond extract; 3 ounces bittersweet chocolate Confectioner’s sugar; 12 tablespoons unsalted butter, at room temperature; ½ cup blanched almonds; 1 large egg yolk; ½ cup plus 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour; ½ cup plus 2 tablespoons cake flour; 2 tablespoons Amaretto; ½ cup sugar; ½ teaspoon vanilla extract

Ladies’ Kisses

Preparation info

About
7 dozen
tiny cookies

Difficulty
Easy

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By Joyce Goldstein

Published 1992

About

One of our favorite cookie recipes. Italian, of course.

Ingredients

½ cup blanched almonds
12 tablespoons unsalted butter, at room temperature
½

Europe
Italy
Dessert
Mediterranean
Cookies
Vegetarian

Method

Procedure

Preheat the oven to 325 degrees. Line a baking sheet with baker’s parchment.

Grind the almonds to a powder in a nut grinder. (Do not use a food processor.) Beat the butter and the sugar in the bowl of an electric mixer until light and fluffy. Beat in the egg