Of course these simple almond cookies are delicious, (a) they're made with white flour and white sugar, and (b) the recipe is adapted from Alice Waters' cookbook The Art of Simple Cooking. Need I say more?
Ingredients
1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened
2/3 C sugar
1 t vanilla
1/2 t salt
1 egg, at room temperature
2 t milk
1 1/2 C unbleached all purpose flour
3/4 C almond meal
powdered sugar (for dusting)Cream together the butter and sugar. Beat in vanilla, salt, egg, milk. Gradually add the flour and almond meal. Refrigerate until dough is manageable, approx 2 hours. Preheat oven to 350. Drop dough onto cookie sheet---can roll out and cut into shapes. Bake 10-12 minutes until slightly browned. Dust or roll in powdered sugar
Weekly Dinners
Sunday- Tri Tip, Wild Rice and Brussels Sprouts (first of the season!)
Monday- Steak Fajitas w/ peppers and onions
Tuesday- Mini Bison Burgers
Wednesday- Lamb, Cucumber-tomato-wild rice-yogurt-spinach-salad
Thursday- Split-Pea soup (even though it's STILL triple digits here.)
It's a red meat week!
This post is a part of Fight Back Fridays. And Make it From Scratch Blog Carnival hosted by Kitchen Stewardship
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10 comments:
butter, sugar and almonds. does it get better? Yum.
Do you ever sub whole wheat flour in your baking?
Yes, I rarely use white flour. Since we mill grains at home, its 99% of the time whole wheat (oat, rye, etc) flour.
Next time I make these I will try oat flour...doesnt that sound good?!
however, I firmly believe there is always room for the occasional treat, like cookies, to be made with nutritionally void white sugar and flour.
Oh, these Almond butter cookies look sooooo good. I would never be able to eat just a few :-)
This recipe sounds lovely! I can't wait to try it. I'm going to use white whole wheat flour since I have plenty of it. Thanks Amanda. I love, love your blog and all its goodness!
These look fantastic Amanda, they wouldn't last long at my house!
They didnt last long AT ALL....minutes!
I wondered about the whole grains, too, but you're right - an occasional fun white product is great! Is almond meal just chewed up almonds?
Thanks for joining the Make it from Scratch Carnival! --Katie
Ohmygoodness! I just made these and varied a little from your variation of the original recipe. I added a teaspoon of almond extract to the dough (in addition to the vanilla). After the dough chilled I rolled it into 1" balls and rolled them in Trader Joe's Organic Sugar (evaporated cane juice). Then baked. I baked them for a little less time since my oven runs hot.
I'm a sucker for cookies -- and these aren't going to last long!
I love reading your blog because you can constantly bring us fresh and cool things, I feel that I must at least say thanks for your hard work.
- Henry
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