Amaretti Biscuits

Preparation info
  • Makes

    50–60

    biscuits
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Cooks Country: Modern British Rural Cooking

By Matt Tebbutt

Published 2008

  • About

These biscuits are the chewy variety of amaretti and keep well for several days in an airtight box.

Ingredients

  • 4 medium egg whites, very fresh
  • 560 g icing sugar, plus extra for dusting
  • 1 pinch</

Method

Preheat the oven to 150°C/300°F/gas mark 2.

Put 2 of the egg whites into a food processor with half the sugar. Mix with the blade attachment not the whisk – you don’t want to fill the biscuits with too much air. Add a pinch of salt, the almond essence, the ground almonds, the r