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Chocolate-Dipped Almond Cookies
Traditional Maltese almond cookies are super simple to make. There's just five ingredients! Unless you add dark chocolate and sea salt...
Course
Cookies
Cuisine
Maltese
Prep Time
10
minutes
minutes
Cook Time
15
minutes
minutes
Total Time
25
minutes
minutes
Servings
24
Author
Let's Eat Cake
Ingredients
400
g
almond flour
approximately 4 1/4 cups
400
g
caster sugar
2 cups, just blend regular sugar for 1 minute in the food processor
4
egg whites
1
tsp
almond extract
24
whole almonds
100
g
dark chocolate
optional
1
g
Mycryo
optional
1
tsp
coarse sea salt
optional
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350° F.
Combine almond flour, sugar, almond extract in a medium bowl.
In a separate bowl, whisk egg whites until slightly foamy. Add to almond flour mixture.
Line two baking sheets with parchment paper.
Roll mixture into 24 balls and place twelve on each sheet.
Top each one one almond and bake for 15 minutes or until golden around the edges.
Optional
When cookies have cooled, place dark chocolate in double broiler or in microwave and heat, removing every 30 seconds to stir, until 104-113° F.
Let cool to 93-95° F.
Add Mycryo and stir until fully combined.
Dip half of almond cookie in chocolate and place on parchment paper to dry.
Top with sea salt