Almond Tea Cookies Food

RUSSIAN TEA COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees. In a large bowl, cream butter and 1/2 cup powdered sugar until smooth. Add almond and vanilla extracts. Slowly add flour and salt to butter mixture, and mix until incorporated. Mix in pecans and walnuts.
• Use a cookie scooper to scoop the dough and then roll into balls (or use your hands to form 1" balls). Bake for 10-12 minutes. (These cookies barely brown, so if they don't look done, it's okay!).
• Roll in powdered sugar while still warm, and roll again when cool.

CHINESE ALMOND COOKIES

Steps:

• Sift the all-purpose flour, almond flour, baking soda and salt together into a large bowl. Whisk any bits of almond flour left in the sifter into the sifted flour mixture.
• Combine the butter and sugar together in the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment. Beat on medium-high speed until light and fluffy, about 4 minutes. Add the almond extract and 1 egg yolk and beat until the mixture is smooth and combined, about 2 minutes. Scrape down the sides and the bottom of the bowl with a rubber spatula. Reduce the speed to medium low, add the flour mixture and beat until no streaks of flour remain, about 2 minutes.
• Wrap the dough in plastic and refrigerate for 1 hour.
• When ready to bake, position a rack in the center of the oven and preheat to 350 degrees F. Line a baking sheet with parchment.
• Whisk together the remaining egg yolk and 1 tablespoon of water in a small bowl. Set aside.
• Scoop the dough by tablespoons (you can use a 1/2-ounce ice cream scoop) and place 2 inches apart on the prepared baking sheet. Roll each scoop into a ball and return it to the baking sheet. Flatten each with your palm into a 2-inch round. Gently press an almond onto each and brush with the egg wash.
• Bake, rotating the baking sheet halfway through, until the cookies are golden brown on the edges, 16 to 18 minutes. Let cool for 5 minutes on the baking sheet, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely, about 10 minutes.
• Store the cookies in a tightly sealed container at room temperature for up to 5 days.

ALMOND TEA BREAD

Steps:

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• In a large bowl, combine almond paste and butter; beat until well blended. Gradually add sugar, beating until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. In a small bowl, gently toss cherries and 1 tablespoon flour. Set aside., Combine the baking powder, salt, remaining flour; add to the creamed mixture alternately with milk, beating well after each addition., Spoon a sixth of the batter into each of two greased and floured 8x4-in. loaf pans; sprinkle layers with half of the fruit. Cover with another layer of batter and sprinkle with remaining fruit. Top with remaining batter; smooth with spatula. , Bake at 350° until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, about 1-1/4 hours. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks to cool.

GREEN TEA ALMOND COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Combine flour, baking powder and salt and contents of the two Elmstock green tea bags in a bowl
• In a mixing bowl blend butter, oil, sugar or honey well by hand or with an electric mixer
• Add egg and vanilla and beat until smooth.
• Add the flour mixture gradually until al ingredients are well blended
• Store covered in the refrigerator for an hour.
• Grease baking sheet.
• Drop one tablespoon mounds two inches apart on baking sheet
• Press an almond sliver in center of mound (optional).
• Bake for 15 minutes until light golden brown.
• Cool and serve.

ALMOND TEA COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350ºF.
• In a mixing bowl, cream sugar and butter.
• Beat in the oil, extract, baking soda, salt, flour, and nuts.
• Mix well and form into small balls (3/4-inch).
• Bake for 12-15 minutes on a greased cookie sheet.
• Roll in powdered sugar and cool on cake rack.

LOW CARB CREME FILLED ALMOND TEA COOKIES

Steps:

• Using stand mixer on low speed, creme butter and add flours and creme and baking powder. Do not overmix. Add soy flour as needed to make a non sticky batter.
• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
• Roll out dough to less than 1/8" thick on a surface lightly floured with soy flour. A silicone mat is desirable. Use a round cutter such as a shot glass to cut round cookies 1 1/4" in diameter. A 1" copper pipe fitting from a home improvement store also works very well. Place the cookies on an ungreased cookie sheet 1/4 inch apart.
• Using a fork, pierce each cookie in four parallel rows. Sprinkle each cookie with splenda. A salt shaker works well for this purpose.
• Bake cookies for 8-10 minutes until golden and puffy. Do not brown.
• Remove cookies from sheet to cooling rack at once. A metal spatula is best to remove cookies from sheet. They will be brittle, especially when hot.
• Make the creme frosting. Either used powdered erythritol and splenda, or powder it yourself to the consistency of confectioners sugar using either a food processor with an S blade or a coffee grinder. Combine the powdered erythritol, splenda, almond extract, butter and heavy creme. Add the red food coloring and mix until smooth and creamy.
• Make sandwiches with the cookies so the splenda coated side of the cookie is facing towards the outside. (optional) May gently heat creme frosting in microwave to facilitate spreading it onto cookie.
• Refrigerate (optional).