almond cookies
To grind the almonds, we used a food processor. Depending on your texture preference, grind the nuts to the consistency of cornmeal or leave coarser.
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prep time
cook time
15 Min
method
Bake
yield
20 large cookies using a scantly-filled 3/4 oz cookie scoop or 24 using a rounded tablespoon measure
Ingredients
- - parchment or nonstick cooking paper
- 1/4 cup light butter
- 1/4 cup reduced-fat cream cheese
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1 - egg
- 3 teaspoons almond extract
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 cup white whole-wheat flour
- 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/4 cup whole almonds, ground
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 1/3 cup sugar (for coating cookie dough)
- 20 - whole, unsalted almonds
How To Make almond cookies
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Step 1Preheat oven to 350*F. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper or coat with cooking spray; set aside.
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Step 2In a large bowl, cream together light butter and cream cheese. Add sugar, egg, almond extract and vanilla extract and blend.
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Step 3In a separate bowl, combine whole-wheat flour, all-purpose flour, ground almonds, baking soda and salt. Add flour mixture to sugar mixture and beat until combined. Freezing dough one hour prior to baking cookies makes rolling in sugar easier.
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Step 4Using a 3/4-oz cooking scoop or a tablespoon measure, form each cookies and roll dough ball in sugar. Place onto prepared cookie sheet. Place one whole almond on top of each dough ball, pressing gently to flatten cookie slightly.
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Step 5Bake 15 to 18 minutes. Cool on wire rack.
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