Name: Amaretti Biscuits
Yield: Makes 50–60 biscuits
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 4 medium egg whites, very fresh; 1 tsp almond essence; 1 pinch of salt; 560 g icing sugar, plus extra for dusting; 1 handful of flaked almonds; 450 g ground almonds

Preparation info

Makes
50–60
biscuits

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Cooks Country

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

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