photo: maria-kitchen.livejournal.com Almond cookies with marmalade

Almond cookies with marmalade

Almond cookies or macaroons are a traditional treat for Christmas and New year. It is a delicate, airy and very tempting treat. You can use any other marmalade instead of a cowberry one. For example, it can be cranberry or orange marmalade.


Ingredients

  • Cranberry marmalade
    300 pcs
  • Almond flour
    60 g
  • Whole wheat flour
    60 g
  • Potato starch
    60 g
  • Butter
    115 g
  • Sugar
    115 g
  • Lemon
    1/2 tbsp
  • Cinnamon
    1/2 tsp
  • Nutmeg
    1 pinch
  • Lemon juice
    2 tbsp
  • Salt
    1 pinch



Steps

  • 1. Combine wheat and almond flour in a bowl, Add salt, starch and spices.
  • 2. Separately beat butter and sugar with a mixer. Stir lemon zest and 1 tbsp of lemon juice into the butter mix.
  • 3. Gradually add flour to the butter mix. Stir the mass, gather the dough, wrap it in a cling film and lay back for 30 minutes.
  • 4. Roll the dough between two sheets of parchment. Shift the layer of the dough on a baking tray and put into a freezer for 10 minutes more.
  • 5. Remove the dough from the freezer, cut out circles. Put them on a baking tray at some distance from each other. Bake for about 10 minutes at 175 degrees. Place the ready cookies on a grill and let them cool completely.
  • 6. Wipe the marmalade through a sieve. Add 1 tbsp of lemon juice, stir.
  • 7. Spread the marmalade over the half of the cookies with a teaspoon. Cover with other halves without the marmalade.
  • 8. Sprinkle with powdered sugar.