Chocolate almond cookies with powdered sugar

Preheat the oven to 180 ° C.

Prepare 2 bowls. Split the egg: break the egg against the edge of 1 bowl and let the protein slide out of the bowl into the bowl. Make sure that the egg yolk stays behind in the eggshell.

Transfer the yolk to the other bowl and whisk the yolk with a fork. Break the almond paste over the bowl with egg yolk into pieces and mix everything with a fork to a smooth mass.

Clean the orange under running water and dry it with kitchen paper. Grate the orange skin thinly. Stir in the grated orange peel with the cocoa through the almond mixture. Beat the egg white with the hand mixer so that there are peaks on it. Spat the protein lightly through the almond mixture.

Roll the dough into balls the size of a walnut and place it on the baking sheet. Make sure there is enough space between the balls, because during cooking they thigh out.

Put the baking sheet in the middle of the oven and bake the cookies in a nice brown for 20 minutes. Probably the top will show some cracks. Allow the cookies to cool on a rack and sprinkle with icing sugar.