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Giada De Laurentiis’ Pignoli Cookies | Food Network



Giada makes soft, chewy cookies with almond paste and pine nuts that are also gluten-free!
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Pignoli Cookies
RECIPE COURTESY OF GIADA DE LAURENTIIS
Level: Easy
Total: 35 min (includes cooling time)
Active: 10 min
Yield: 12 cookies

Ingredients

One 7-ounce tube almond paste
1/2 cup confectioners’ sugar
1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
1 large egg white
2/3 cup pine nuts

Directions

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Line a rimmed baking sheet with parchment paper and set aside.

Break apart the almond paste in the bowl of a food processor. Add the confectioners’ sugar, vanilla extract, salt and egg white and pulse until smooth. Scoop 1-tablespoon balls of dough directly into the pine nuts and gently roll them in the pine nuts, pressing gently to adhere. (The dough is soft but the pine nuts will help make it easier to handle.)

Place the cookies 2 inches apart on the prepared baking sheet. Bake until lightly browned around the edges and puffed, 16 to 18 minutes. Allow to cool completely on the tray before removing them with an offset spatula.

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28 Comments

  7. Mark Christopher

    “The holidays” so…. this is a cookie you make at Veterans Day? Or….do you mean it’s a Christmas Cookie? Lawd, say what it is. 🙄

  8. lanceamillion

    😆☝This young Lady is always so direct, and gets right to her cookin!🌷🌷🌷🍳🍜🍚🍅🍽🍲🍛🍷🍾😆🖒Way to go Ms. Lady!

  9. Glenn Shufford

    You have a beautiful home and she put sugar in clear bowl and mix things together mixing bowl and put on mental pan and put in the oven and nice cookies

  11. Beans

    This is a creepy picture and people with a certain phobia could be triggered ugghhh

  13. J

    There is no flour/ change out egg and they r vegan ……..wow love these as a kid, and the tri color cookies too!

  14. Lorri Nichols

    this recipe is not realistic, pinenuts cost too much. If I was making this I would sub almonds. This would cost 25 bucks for 3 cookies…

  16. Donna Pollock

    Thank you Giada for this great recipe. I will be sure to add them to my Christmas cookie plates….

  19. Lotus Song

    I love pine nuts, but they’re so expensive.😍😩 Maybe that’s why they’re made around the holidays.

  22. Michelle Cerrone

    Giada, would it b a good idea to put the dough in the fridge for a few minutes so the dough is easier to handle, before rolling in pine nuts?

  24. johnny mansfield

    marzipan would not be right for these and you know that Giada, you went to cooking school, also, those cookies are over baked

  25. strobe4570

    my grandmother from Sicily would make them before we visited her in the north end , but she would hide them so my sister and i would have to find them. it's one of my favorite memories of her.

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