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Almond snowballs

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Ingredients

  • 2 egg whites
  • Pinch coarse salt
  • 65g sugar, eyeball it
  • 175g dessicated coconut
  • 1 tsp almond essence, eyeball it
  • 1/4 tsp Technique: Grate Shredding a large ingredient to produce small, evenly-sized morsels. You can grate ingredients using a grating disc fitted inside your food processor. I know this Teach me, please grated or ground nutmeg
  • 25g plain flour
  • 9 glace red cherries, halved
  • 25g Technique: Slicing Cutting a larger piece of food into even pieces or strips. I know this Teach me, please sliced almonds

Use imperial measurements

Method

How to make Almond snowballs

1) Preheat oven to 180C/Gas 4.

2) In a mixing bowl, beat egg whites and salt to soft peaks, then add sugar and beat again until peaks are stiff. Beat in almond flavouring. Using a rubber spatula or wooden spoon, stir in half of the coconut. Sprinkle in the nutmeg and flour, stir, then fold in the remaining coconut.

3) Using a melon baller or other small scoop, or working with 2 spoons, form 9 "snowballs" 5cm apart on each of 2 baking sheets. Bake snowballs 12 to 15 mins, until lightly golden. Remove from oven and garnish each snowball with half a cherry and a couple of slivered almonds. Transfer to a rack or serving plate to cool.