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December 11, 2012
Pignoli Cookies
Want an easy and sweet treat for your holiday table? Bake some almond cookies topped with pine nuts.
We always have a stash of pignoli cookies for our Christmas table. You can make them in less than an hour.
A fan asked for this recipe. She has fond pignoli cookie memories but the recipe slipped away.
She got excited when I told her I’d make some. “Thank you thank you thank you! I can’t wait! I want to surprise my mother with them. Our recipe was lost to the last generation. I should have paid more attention.” Well here you go. I hope these cookies match your memories.
Pignoli cookies are moist and soft with crunchy toasted pine nuts on top. Eat them right away or store them for up to a week in a sealed container. Only problem is I usually don’t have any left to store.
I love pignoli cookies so much I can’t wait for Christmas and make them all year long.
Buon Natale. Buon appetito!
Pignoli Cookies
Ingredients
1 poundalmond paste
1 1/2 cupssugar
3egg whites
1 1/2 cuppine nuts
Cooking Directions
Heat the oven to 350 degrees.
Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or lightly butter the baking sheet.
Put the almond paste in a food processor and pulse until it is finely crumbled. (Canned almond paste is preferred over paste in a tube. Canned paste yields a less grainy dough.)
Add the sugar and process until the paste and sugar are well incorporated.
Add the egg whites, one at a time and pulse until the dough is smooth but not overly wet. You want a fairly stiff dough so you can form the cookies in the palm of your hand.
Spread the pine nuts out on a plate.
Form a tablespoon of the dough into a ball with your hands.
Coat the ball with pine nuts.
Place them on the baking sheet and lightly press them down to flatten them a bit and to secure the pine nuts.
Leave some room between the cookies. They will spread a bit as they bake.
Bake until the cookies until lightly browned, about 15 minutes. The cookies should be soft and springy to the touch.
Cool on a wire rack.
You can store the cookies in a sealed container for about a week. (You should be so lucky that they will last that long.)
Makes about 30 pignoli cookies.
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They came out great! Expensive, though, here in the southeast. There aren’t too many Italians around to shop I guess. Next year I’ll be more prepared and order ingredients online. You’d think there was a pine nut shortage.
I ended up making mind more skinny. I think the great aunts liked to eat them with coffee and shaped them accordingly.
This is exactly how they tasted. I’m now embarrassed that it was such a simple recipe to forget. Thank you again. Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas Christy. Let me know how the cookies turn out.
They came out great! Expensive, though, here in the southeast. There aren’t too many Italians around to shop I guess. Next year I’ll be more prepared and order ingredients online. You’d think there was a pine nut shortage.
I ended up making mind more skinny. I think the great aunts liked to eat them with coffee and shaped them accordingly.