Amaretti Italian macaroons - delicate, viscous and slightly crunchy

Kitchen appliances and utensils: mixer, deep bowl, coffee grinder, baking sheet, parchment paper, oven.

Ingredients

Step cooking

Cooking Almonds

1. To make Italian almond cookies, we need almonds and apricot kernels. We need these kernels to enhance the aroma of almonds. If you don’t have these, you can do without them at all, or add a little almond essence, it will also serve as an amplifier of taste.
   
2. To begin with, using a coffee grinder, grind 200 g of almond nuts and apricot kernel (if any). Pour some nuts into the coffee grinder, add 50 g of sugar to them and grind. Sugar will help give almonds the right consistency. If the bowl of your coffee grinder is large, you can lay all the ingredients in one go.
   
3. Pour the resulting mass into a deep bowl, again send the rest of the almonds and 50 g of sugar to the coffee grinder, grind to the state of flour and send to the already chopped nut. It's time to turn on the oven 180 degrees so that it warms up.
   

Cooking Meringues

1. In a separate bowl we drive in two chicken egg whites at room temperature, add a pinch of salt, whisk with a mixer.
   
2. Gradually add 100 g of sugar or powdered sugar.
   
3. Beat the proteins until you get a lush white mass, as they say, soft peaks.
   
4. Now gently mix the chopped almonds and protein meringues. You will get a homogeneous dough without lumps.
   

Bake italian cookies

1. Then we cover the baking sheet with parchment paper, pick up the almond dough with a teaspoon, use the second teaspoon to spread it on the baking sheet. We leave a place between the workpieces, about a couple of centimeters, since in the process of baking cookies increase.
   
2. When all the cookie preparations have been laid out, pour sugar powder into a small sieve and sprinkle each cookie with it.
   
3. Now we send the pan to the oven, bake cookies for 15-20 minutes. Then we take out the baking sheet from the oven, carefully spread the cookies on a beautiful plate. Cookies are very tender, crumbly, crispy. We serve it with tea, coffee, juice or eat without additional drinks. Macaroons will surely appeal not only to adults, but also to children.
   

Video recipe

As you can see, cooking macaroons is quite simple, the recipe consists of the minimum amount of ingredients that are available to everyone. If you don’t have enough step-by-step instructions with a photo to fully understand the process of preparing Italian cookies, we recommend that you additionally watch a short but very informative video in which the housewife shows you everything in detail, gives useful tips.

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