Pignoli Cookie Recipe Gluten Free Casein Free
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Recipe type: Cookie
Cuisine: Dessert
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Ingredients
  • 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
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350°F.
  2. In a stand mixer, beat egg whites until foamy.
  3. Add almond paste, confectioners sugar, salt and honey and mix.
  4. Scrape down bowl and mix until smooth at medium-high speed, about 5 minutes (batter will be very thick)
  5. Using wet hands (keep a bowl of water handy and re-wet hands as necessary), shape dough into balls.
  6. Pour pine nuts into a bowl.
  7. Drop dough balls into pine nuts and press the pine nuts into one side of ball.
  8. Place dough ball with pine nuts facing up on a silpat or parchment lined cookie sheet.
  9. Bake cookies in upper and lower thirds of oven, until golden, 12 to 20 minutes total.
  10. Slide cookies on parchment onto racks to cool completely, then peel cookies from parchment.
  11. Read More http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Pignoli-Cookies-107447#ixzz2ExDohfqK
Notes
I used a baking stone and needed to bake cookies closer to the 20 minute time.
Recipe by Matthew's Puzzle - Autism Recovery, Gluten Free, Green Living Mom Blog at https://www.matthewspuzzle.com/2012/12/pignoli-cookie-recipe-gluten-free-casein-free.html