If you love Italian cookies, these Bakery-Style Pignoli Cookies 🍪 are going to be your new favorite! Soft in the middle, lightly crisp on the edges, and packed with pine nuts 🌲. I add a little flour 🌾 to make the dough easier to handle, so even beginners can get perfect, bakery-style results 🙌.
These cookies are perfect for holidays 🎄, gifting 🎁, parties 🥳, or anytime you just want a sweet, nutty treat 💛.
Ingredients:
7 ounces almond paste 🟤
1/2 cup sugar 🍚
1 large egg whites 🥚
1/2 cup all-purpose flour 🌾
½ tsp orange extract (optional) OR 1 tsp grated orange zest🍊
1 cup pine nuts 🌲
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 cup powdered sugar
Instructions:
Preheat oven to 300°F (175°C) 🔥 and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
In food processor crumble almond paste then add flour, granulated sugar, powdered sugar, salt, orange zest till forms crumb.
Then slowly add egg white ✨.
Blend until smooth and dough comes together. 💛.
Slightly damp hands form TBSP balls and roll into pine nuts until fully coated⚪.
Place on baking sheet, spacing about 2 inches apart ⬜.
Bake 18-20 minutes until lightly golden on top ⏱️.
Let cool completely before enjoying 😋.
Tips & Notes:
Chill the dough slightly if it feels too sticky ❄️
Store in an airtight container for up to 1 week 🏺
Perfect for festive occasions or a cozy snack anytime ✨
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Hi, welcome to Baker Affair. I’m Peeka and on today’s episode I’m really though, I’m going to be making Pignoli cookies, which are actually pine nut cookies, which are these little. Nuts. Well, And they come from pine pine cone somewhere and not my pine cones but supposedly they grow in pine pine. Pine trees, pine cones. So it’s going to, you’re going to need a half a cup of all-purpose flour, 1/2 a cup of granulated sugar, 1/2 a cup of powdered sugar. And I’m not making them the traditional way, which is just almond paste because I’m adding flour to it and I always have and it just works. For me, I’ve been doing it for years. 1/4 teaspoon of salt, one ounce, 1 oz. 17 oz or 8 oz almond paste. They usually come in a box by the baking section. Um, a teaspoon of granulated granulated See I’m I’m a of grated orange zest or a half a teaspoon of. Orange extract, and that’s what I will be using today because I don’t have any oranges and I always have orange extract because if you didn’t know this, if you add orange extract to basically anything that’s delicious. If you put it in a sugar cookie, if you put it in whatever, it’s delicious and then you’re going to need. Large egg white and a cup of pine nuts, which I get at the at the Costco because they’re just cheaper there, so and you’re going to need the handy dandy. Food processor because it’s the easiest way to make it. So let’s get started. So in the food processor, I’m going to kind of crumble this up. See it comes in like a block. And I’m just going to kind of crumble it up. To begin with, anyway. basically you just. Add everything. Teaspoon. You just put everything in there. And you’re going to post it. Till it gets crumbled. That’s good, so let’s crumbly. And then I’m going to add an egg white. pour this in slowly. Well, that wouldn’t work. That’s just kind of all went in all at once. See how it formed. Want it to look like that? Say it looks like formed into a dough. And then?And then?And then? Super easy to make. If you see what I’m doing. Right now, because I’ll show you what what you have to do. This is very sticky. OK. OK, so you know what this is? This is. I forgot to add the salt and without the salt it won’t work so I’m just going to. We do it. It’s only a little bit of salt, but it really. And I’m just getting in here with my hand, even though it’s really super sticky and just. Hopefully I can get it mixed up enough that it’s good. Yeah. And I always say this, but I’m keeping it real. I’m keeping it real. It’s who I am. I made a mistake. I forgot to add the salt, so I’m adding it. Leave a comment below if you’ve ever done anything like me. I mean I have literally taken cakes out of an oven because I forgot like the vanilla and I know it won’t taste good. Have you ever done anything like that? Ohh. OK, let me try this again. do. With wet hands. You take a ball. It’s checked them in the pine nuts. And then you stick it on the tray. For super easy. About two inches apart on the cookie sheet. so I have them all on the sheet. Sheets ready to go, 300° two inches apart on the baking sheets, and then they bake for about you bake until they’re golden brown. That’s it. So I’m going to go get these into the oven. And I’ll be back. OK, so I just, they’re all cooled off. I have them on here. And I was trying to think of the closest thing I could think of. What does a pine nut taste like? And it’s almost reminiscent of like. A sunflower seed to me, I don’t. It’s a little bit different, but that’s what pignoli it reminds me of. If you’ve never had a pinoli nut cookie, I don’t know what to say. They’re delicious, so I’m going to try one. Umm. There’s like a crust on the outside and it’s chewy on the inside and there are to die for. And if you’re Italian, I’m sure you’ve had them a million times, because I have. I’m telling you. Absolutely delicious. You saw how much? The time it took. To make them, except I forgot the salt and had to put it back in. But they are so easy to make and they’re delicious. The only thing is they’re a little bit pricey because the pine nuts are expensive and you’re using a cup. I did use basically the whole cup. I guess if you wanted to save money you could just dip half of the cookie, but then you’re not going to have them on the bottom in the top. Anyway, thank you for watching. I appreciate, I appreciate you being here from the bottom of my heart. It makes me happy. If you want to give this a thumbs up and subscribe, that’d be great. If not, if it’s not your jam, no worries. Until the next time, Ciao.
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