Cantuccini

Name: cantuccini
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 40 min
Yield: 20
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: 2 medium sized egg; 200 g wheat flour extra for pollinating; 1 mespoint salt; 120 g granulated sugar; 1 tl baking powder; 1 lemon cleaned up; 100 g unroasted almonds; 2 el semi skimmed milk

Italian almond cookies. Tasted in Italy and now you bake them yourself with this recipe.

Ingredients

Kitchen Stuff

1 baking paper

Directions

Preheat the oven to 180 ° C.
Separate 1 egg and keep the egg yolk separate. Put the egg white in a bowl and beat with the other egg. Sift the flour above it.
Mix in the salt, sugar and baking powder.
Grate the yellow skin of the lemon above it. Add the almonds to the mixture. Knead until a smooth dough.
Dust the worktop and your hands lightly with flour. Shape of the dough 2 long bars of approx. 4 cm wide.
Place this on a baking tray covered with parchment paper with sufficient space (they become wider during baking).
Beat the egg yolk with the milk. Brush the dough with it. Bake in the oven in approx. 20 min. Golden yellow.
Remove from the oven and cut the still warm cake into sloping slices of 1 ½ cm thick.
Place the cookies on their sides and bake for about 8 minutes. Until they are golden brown and a bit darker around the edges. Allow to cool. Yummy! .