Amaretti

Bitter Almond Cookies

Preparation info
  • Makes

    24

    cookies
    • Difficulty

      Medium

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By Fred Plotkin

Published 1997

  • About

These well-known Italian cookies are produced commercially in Saronno, in Lombardy, but this is the recipe from Sassello, in the province of Savona, whose amaretti are homemade and more memorable. In Liguria, amaretti are typically served with tea, with fruit, with wine, and as a stuffing for peaches. You must understand that these are not bitter cookies with almonds, but rather cookies made with sweet almonds (the type you are used to) and bitter almonds