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Almond snowball cookies

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  • These biscuits are transformed into sweet snowballs by a dusting of icing sugar.
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Ingredients

  • 75g Technique: Slice Cutting a thin piece or pieces from a larger ingredient or dish. You can slice ingredients using a slicing disc fitted inside your food processor. I know this Teach me, please sliced almonds
  • 150g caster sugar
  • 180g unsalted butter, Technique: Slice Cutting a thin piece or pieces from a larger ingredient or dish. You can slice ingredients using a slicing disc fitted inside your food processor. I know this Teach me, please sliced and softened
  • 1/2 tsp pure vanilla essence
  • 1 dash almond essence
  • 230g plain flour
  • 1/2 tsp fine salt
  • 125g Technique: Icing Adding a mixture of icing sugar and water, butter or cream to a cake or cupcake for a decorative finish. I know this Teach me, please icing sugar

Use imperial measurements

Method

How to make Almond snowball cookies

Pulse the almonds and sugar in a food processor until very finely ground. Add the butter and process until smooth, about one minute. Scrape the dough off the inside of the bowl, if needed. Add the vanilla and almond essence and pulse to combine. Add the flour and salt and pulse to make a soft dough. Turn the dough out onto a large piece of waxed paper and roll into a log about 40cm long and 4cm wide. Wrap and refrigerate for 30 mins.

Preheat the oven to 160°C / gas mark 3. Line two baking sheets with parchment paper.

Cut the chilled dough into 1cm pieces and roll by hand into balls. Space the cookies evenly on the prepared baking sheets and bake until slightly golden, rotating the sheets once, 15 to 20 mins. Put the Technique: Icing Adding a mixture of icing sugar and water, butter or cream to a cake or cupcake for a decorative finish. I know this Teach me, please icing sugar in a pie plate. Briefly cool the cookies on a rack, then gently toss in the Technique: Icing Adding a mixture of icing sugar and water, butter or cream to a cake or cupcake for a decorative finish. I know this Teach me, please icing sugar until evenly coated. Return to rack, cool to room temperature, and then toss again in the Technique: Icing Adding a mixture of icing sugar and water, butter or cream to a cake or cupcake for a decorative finish. I know this Teach me, please icing sugar.