These are very popular cookies made specially on Chinise New year and other festivals like Eid in Malyasia..
I had made these for Christmas and they were loved and well received by all who tasted them.As i got busy during the entire month of December I just forgot to post them..Anyways its better late than never ..
Now over to the recipe
Ingredients
125 gm butter
75 g icing sugar/powdered sugar sifted
1 egg yolk
225 g flour/2 cup
3tbsp cornflour
100 g ground almonds
1 tsp vanilla essence
350-400 gm chocolate compound
1 tsp baking powder # ( see notes )
70 almonds
50 gm almond nibbles
Method
preheat oven 170
Sift flour ,cornflour and baking powder
In a bowl beat sugar and butter together till creamy.
Add egg and essence,beat till pale yellow
add flour ,almond flour baking powder if using and fold till you get soft dough
If the dough is too soft add more flour
- Divide into marble sized balls
- Bake /toast the almonds for 7-8 min
- Cover the cookie with almond ,shape into oval shaped cookie
- Bake for 20 min 180 degree
- Over double boiler,melt the chopped compound chocolate
- Cool before dipping in melted chocolate
- Dip the cookies in chocolate and with help of spoon/fork lift each cookies and place on paper cups.
- Sprinkle nibbles before chocolate dries
- Store it an air tight container..
you can skip egg you are a vegetarian..jus proceed with the rest of the ingredients add few drops of milk if the dough is too crumbly.
if the dough is too soft to handle ,keep it in the refrigerator for 15- 20 minutes before you shape it to cookies
# i have tried both method adding baking powder and skipping it..both turns out perfect..i feel skipping is much better.
looks so yummy
ReplyDeleteI'm sure that tastes too good! Looks so tempting!
ReplyDeleteWow...look so tempting. ..really easy to follow your blog with step by step instructions. ..keep going dear
DeleteMy all time fav, also truly popular over here for other festivals as well. Just simply tempting.
ReplyDeleteyummy
ReplyDeleteThis is something new and innovative...never tried this...
ReplyDeleteI need to try looks delicious very nice.
ReplyDeleteLovely cookies
ReplyDeletelooks easy , let me find out about egg less version of this and will try it. I dont like complicated baking.
ReplyDeleteyou can skip the egg ..it will still turn soft as cornflour is added already..
Deletewow almond cookies in chocoalte di looks lip smacking i shoud try this eggless version
ReplyDeleteThese look so tasty! Perfect for Valentine's Day :)
ReplyDeletevery tempting and lovely
ReplyDeletein love with these london almond cookies.. shall bake it sometime :) bookmarked dear <3
ReplyDeleteNever heard of these cookies but from the way it looks and the recipe, this is surely a must try! Thank you for sharing...
ReplyDeleteWish I could grab some right now! YUMMY!
ReplyDeleteThis is such an interesting recipe! Love everything about it!
ReplyDeleteSuperb cookies with almonds. Like the shape of the cookies too...
ReplyDeleteThe chocolate hardens and sticks to the baking paper. While trying to separate the cookie from the individual baking paper, the paper will tear or stick to the cookie coated with chocolate. This happens as the chocolate is really very hard. For taste, the chocolate becomes extremely hard which spoils the cookie’s texture. The chocolate is the culprit in this case, while the cookie is still smooth and delicate by itself.
ReplyDeleteAny advise on how to avoid the chocolate to not be this way?
Never faced such problem before..try using a different brand of compound chocolate.
Deletehi, is ground almond necessary? can i skip it?
ReplyDeleteyes its necessary you may skip and use flour but the taste will definitely change
DeleteI did as per d recipe but d dough was crumbly without egg. Hence added chilled milk as substitute.
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