French Almond Cookies
From hopscotch 14 years ago
- 10 minutes to make
- Serves 11
It is my quest to find my beloved Archway Cookie, and to date I have found over three thousand almond cookies throughout the world. It's like a needle in a haystack, that is, out of all these recipes, perhaps one or two may just be that cookie (laughs).
Ingredients
- Ingredients shopping list
- 1 cup cool lightly salted butter, cut into chunks shopping list
- 1 1/4 cups brown sugar shopping list
- 1 1/4 cups granulated sugar shopping list
- 1 tablespoon honey shopping list
- 2 eggs, well beaten shopping list
- 2 cups ground almonds shopping list
- 3 cups flour shopping list
- 1 teaspoon baking soda shopping list
- 1/2 cup slivered almonds shopping list
How to make it
- Preparation
- 1.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cream the butter and sugars together until smooth. Stir in the honey, eggs and ground almonds. Combine the flour and the baking soda. Stir into the butter mixture until combined.
- 2.
- Pinch off a piece of dough the size of a walnut. Roll it between your palms to form a cigar shape. Place on a parchment-lined cookie sheet. Repeat, placing cookies 2 inches apart. Push a slivered almond into the center of each cookie. Bake until golden brown, about 10 minutes.
- 3.
- Immediately transfer cookies to a rack to cool. Cookies can be frozen in an airtight container, with wax paper between each layer, for up to 6 months. Defrost 30 minutes before serving.
- YIELD
- About 11 dozen cookies
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