Name: Pignoli Cookies
Yield: 18 servings
Ingredients: Granulated Sugar; Powdered Sugar; All-Purpose Flour; Table Salt; Almond Paste; Large Eggs; Pine Nuts

Little puffs of rich nutty goodness covered with pine nuts

Ingredients

Granulated Sugar: 1/2 Cup
Powdered Sugar: 1/2 Cup
All-Purpose Flour: 1/4 Cup
Table Salt: 1/8 TSP
Almond Paste: 1 Cup
Large Eggs (Separated, Whites Only): 2 Each
Pine Nuts: 3 Oz

Instructions

Preheat oven to 300. Lightly grease cookie sheet or use parchment paper.
Sift dry ingredients together and set aside.
In a medium bowl, break up the almond paste with a fork. Add egg whites until well blended and smooth.
With a wooden spoon, stir paste/egg white mixture into dry ingredients, mix well.
Using slightly rounded teaspoon-fulls, roll dough into 1" balls.
Place on prepared cookie sheet and press flat into 1 - 1/2" cookies. Sprinkle each cookie with several pine nuts and press into cookie.
Bake 20-25 minutes until golden.

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