Recipe from
New Hampshire Country Inns and Bed & Breakfasts
in the White Mountains

Ingredients:

17 ounces almonds
18 ounces granulated sugar
3 large egg whites
2 Tablespoons Amaretto Liqueur
1 teaspoon ground cardamom

Directions:

Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Line cookie sheet with parchment paper and spray with pan release (PAM).

Place almonds in food processor and grind/process until forms a course meal. Add sugar and cardamom and blend until combined and consistency of almond paste (you are effectively making almond paste).

Beat egg whites until blended. Do NOT beat until soft peaks. Fold egg whites and Amaretto into almond/sugar/cardamom mixture and fold to blend.

To form cookies you can pipe from a pastry bag into 1 to 1-1/4 inch rounds. Alternatively you can use a large melon baller or small ice cream scoop to form 1 inch rounds. Place cookies on greased parchment paper lined cookie sheet and bake for 15 to 20 minutes until cookies have risen and slightly colored. Remove parchment paper with cookies from tray to rack to cool. Peel cookies from parchment paper.

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