The Best Amaretti Cookies: A Italian Almond Christmas Cookie Recipe

The best Amaretti cookies bring a touch of sophistication and elegance to any dessert platter, making them perfect holiday treats. This classic Italian almond cookie makes a delightful Christmas cookie, but it’s also perfect any time of year. Their crisp, slightly chewy texture offers a delightful contrast to the usual soft, gooey holiday desserts. With a subtle almond sweetness, these classic Italian cookies appeal to adults and kids alike and will bring a taste of Italy to your holiday table.

In this video, I’ll show you how to make homemade Amaretti cookies with a crisp outside and a tender, chewy inside.

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You will need:
3 cups almond flour
1 cup granulated sugar
3 large eggs, whites only, at room temperature
2 teaspoons almond extract
powdered sugar for rolling
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Today we’re bringing a little taste of Italy to our cookie trays this holiday season with a cookie called the amoretti cookie it’s an Italian almond cookie that has a crisp outside and a soft Chey Center something that you’re going to absolutely love you don’t need to be

Italian to love these cookies I happen to have some Italian in my family and that my husband’s grandparents immigrated to the United States from Italy so we are very fond of the Italian Heritage that the family shares if you’re like me when I’m thinking about the Christmas cookies

That I’m going to put on my Christmas cookie platter each year I absolutely must include the favorites that my family loves but if you’re also like me you might be always thinking of what what one new cookie can I introduce to the family think about making this Italian amoretti cookie the new cookie

That you introduced to your family this year the Simplicity of these cookies is going to amaze and Delight you especially during the busy holiday season when you’ve got so much on your mind and so much to get done so all you have to do is gather some eggs almond

Flour some granulated sugar almond extract and powdered sugar to roll the cookies in this almond cookie recipe as I’m sharing it with you today is going to make between 20 and 24 cookies cookies depending on how you form each portion of the cookie it is so easy for

You to make these cookies because it it takes so few ingredients you will need three eggs three large eggs at room temperature 3 cups of almond flour and almond flour is readily available in most grocery stores in most locations across the United States today one cup of granulated sugar 2 tpoon of almond

Extract now you may want a little more almond extract you may want a little less almond extra extract depends on what your palette is how much almond that you like we’re also going to use some powdered sugar to roll each one of our cookie portions in before we bake

Them to get started making the cookies you want to break the whites of three eggs into Bowl I have two egg whites in this bowl now and we’ll make one more egg white now you want to beat your egg whites to a froth we’re not making

Mering here we just want our egg whites to have lots and lots of bubbles in them I’m using my electric mixer but you don’t need to you can do this with a whisk You can see that I have nice frothy egg whites next I’m going to take my one cup of granulated sugar and I’m going to mix it into my three cups of almond flour and stir that around till the sugar and the almond flour is mixed together completely add your almond

Extract to your egg whites and then just give it another little quick mix so that the flavor of the Almond is distributed well in the egg whites next I’m adding the egg whites all at once into the almond flour mixture and I’m going to stir to Combine now you just want to do this by hand you don’t want to over mix this you want to just make sure that the egg is moistening the dough or the flour so that you have a crumbly dough that you’re going to form into balls and at some point you may decide

That it’s time to get your fingers in there which is what I’m going to do and mix this around when you use your hands you can really get a sense of how combined the ingredients are and just keep on oh squeezing it a little bit tossing it together it comes together much like

A pie dough does and then you’ll have a consistency like this cover your dough I’m using plastic wrap and set it aside for 30 to 45 minutes this will give time for your sugar to meld in with the Almond FL flour and make your cookies just delicious while that is sitting preheat

Your oven I’m going to preheat my oven to 350° on convection so if you are using a conventional oven you’ll want to set your oven at 375° F use either a spoon or a knife to cut your dough into portions and roll each portion between your hands making a

Nice ball that you will then just roll in your powdered sugar and place on a parchment lined or a silicone matte lined baking sheet I think you can see that this is so simple that you could even have your children or your grandchildren helping you with this or maybe even making it

Themselves because it is just that simple once you have all of your dough rolled into balls and placed on your baking sheet you’re going to take a a small glass and just very lightly press very lightly and then into the oven the preheated 350° fhe on convection oven or 3

75° fah conventional oven the cookies should take between 15 to 20 minutes to be puffed cracked and lightly golden at 20 minutes the cookies come out of the oven looking all cracked and powdery and oh so mouthwatering delicious transfer the cookies to a rack to cool completely

Won’t they look pretty on your Christmas cookie plate let’s do a taste test and find out about the texture crisp on the outside tender and chewy on the inside M you do want to try These a