Chinese Almond Cookies

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Chinese almond cookies also known as Almond cakes or Almond crisp are popular cookies that are made around the Chinese New Year. This Almond cookie is one of the simplest cookie to make!

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Recipe Facts:

Cuisine

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Chinese

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Total Time

25 minutes

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Servings

20

– All-purpose flour – Almond meal  – Sugar – Baking soda – Baking powder – Oil  – Almond milk – Sliced almonds

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Ingredients:

– Preheat the oven. Line a cookie sheet with parchment and keep it aside. – Prepare the almond flour or almond meal. – In the jar of the food processor, combine the flour, almond meal, sugar, baking powder and baking soda.

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Step 1

– Run the processor a couple of times to combine the ingredients and slowly add the oil. Pulse the processor a few times until the mixture comes together as a loose dough. When held together in the palm, it should form a ball.

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Step 2

– If the dough is too dry, add a teaspoon more of oil and continue doing this until it comes together. I needed about 2 more teaspoons of oil to bring the dough together.

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Step 3

– Roll the dough into small balls and slightly flatten them. Press a whole almond or sliced almond in each cookie and place them in a parchment lined baking sheet.

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Step 4

– Brush the top of the cookies with almond milk liberally and bake them until the top of the cookies have turned light brown.

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Step 5

– Carefully remove the cookies on a cooling rack and let it cool completely.

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Step 6

– Store in an airtight container.

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      Enjoy!

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