When I was a child one of the best parts of Christmas was baking cookies with my parents. I loved the smell of our home while they baked, I loved the feel our our kitchen while we prepared the dough. I loved how our house was filled with so much love and affection, and that is what made Christmastime so special. When I had Matthew I was so excited to be able to share this tradition with him, but when we realized he and his brothers did better on a gluten free casein free diet I thought Christmas cookie making was out of the question. Then I realized there were several really wonderful cookies that were naturally gluten and casein free, such as the Italian Pignoli cookie.
I found this wonderful Pignoli Cookie Recipe on line and set to making these soft, moist, almond flavored treats just in time for the holidays.
To make them Gluten Free please be sure you purchase a brand of almond paste that is states it is gluten free or check with the manufacturer. The first almond paste we bought actually contained wheat! The recipe also suggests you use the canned paste not the one found in a tube. Enjoy.
- 2 large egg whites
- 2 (8-oz) cans almond paste (not marzipan), coarsely crumbled
- 1½ cups confectioners sugar
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 2 tablespoons mild honey
- 1 cup pine nuts
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- In a stand mixer, beat egg whites until foamy.
- Add almond paste, confectioners sugar, salt and honey and mix.
- Scrape down bowl and mix until smooth at medium-high speed, about 5 minutes (batter will be very thick)
- Using wet hands (keep a bowl of water handy and re-wet hands as necessary), shape dough into balls.
- Pour pine nuts into a bowl.
- Drop dough balls into pine nuts and press the pine nuts into one side of ball.
- Place dough ball with pine nuts facing up on a silpat or parchment lined cookie sheet.
- Bake cookies in upper and lower thirds of oven, until golden, 12 to 20 minutes total.
- Slide cookies on parchment onto racks to cool completely, then peel cookies from parchment.
- Read More http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Pignoli-Cookies-107447#ixzz2ExDohfqK
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is that what those are called. They look delicious
Tricia Nightowlmama recently posted..Anticipating a Tax Refund: Preparing for Tax Season
Sounds delish!
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They look delicious!
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I LOVE Pignoli nuts! This looks like a great recipe!
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Sounds yummy!
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These look amazing! I shared on Pinterest and Google+
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With all these Gluten free recipes that look amazing now, it’s very helpful for people who want to switch over to no Gluten. These look so good.
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I adore pignolis and am ecstatic to try a GF version. Thank you!
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These look so yummy. May have to try them!
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These look delicious!
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These look great… I am usually too cheap to buy pine nuts though..
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These look amazing!
They sound YUMMY!
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I have never heard of those kind of cookies. Cool, hubby would like those. Thanks for sharing.
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Pignolis are my favorite! We used to get them in Little Italy in Baltimore when we lived there. Thanks for the recipe!
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Wow, those look so good. A big glass of milk and I’d be set.
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I’ve never heard of these, they sound delicious though.
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Wow, those look amazing Maryann!
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Yummy, sounds great!!
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lol. I’ve seen these before but never knew what they were called. I love them though
Looks yummy!
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Oh my yum!
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Those look SO good!
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Sounds great!
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I don’t think I’ve ever had these before–they look so good!
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Those cookies look mighty tasty.
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Looks yummy! We are baking cookies tomorrow!
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What a fabulous cookies! I love cookies with pine nuts (we call them pinons in New Mexico)! These cookies look simple and delicious!
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Going to pin this! Looks yummy!
These look so yummy, I love anything almond flavored!
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Those are some great looking cookies.
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These look amazing! I love that they are GF and CF! I am having fun looking through your site today! Happy to connect!!
We have been having such great recipes at our Gluten Free Fridays parties! I really appreciate you being part of the link up and part of the community! 🙂
Thanks for linking up at our Gluten Free Fridays party! I have tweeted and pinned your entry to our Gluten Free Fridays board on Pinterest! 🙂
I hope to see you again this week!
Cindy from vegetarianmamma.com
Those look so good!
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I am featuring this amazing cookies tonight in our Gluten Free Friday favorites! Thanks for linking up and I hope you come back this week and share more goodies!
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I bet these are good!
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