Recipe from moje wypieki.com, found while looking for something sweet to take to LauDe tomorrow. Something, that would look good next to the lovely bottle of Amarone that is waiting to go too.

They need to be started the day before, the almond dough rests in the fridge overnight for the flavour to develop.

2 egg whites get whipped stiff with a pinch of salt. To this I added 1 tsp of lemon juice, 1 tbsp of freshly grated orange rind and some of my candied orange too( not in the recipe). Some vanilla paste, 160 g of icing sugar – 200 g in the original recipe- and 200 g of ground almonds. I skipped almond extract, yuk! All this nicely combined waited until today.

More icing sugar was needed to roll out, generously dust and roll them out, like gnocchi,shaped roughly like diamonds, then placed on the baking paper and into the oven at 150 degrees. After 6 mins the temperature goes up to 170, then after 6 minutes again down to 150. Mine baked for 20 minutes in total, developed a nice skin, cracked nicely and did not brown up at all.

I like them, in spite of the huge amount of sugar, but I’d probably crank up orange flavour, maybe with Grand Marnier if I had it? Now must put some away for LauDe, before Florek sees them. 🙂