Cookies with almond dough

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   Prepare the ingredients.

2. Step 2:

   

   Add egg yolks, sugar and a pinch of salt to the soft butter. Mix well with a whisk.

3. Step 3:

   

   Add vanilla extract or vanilla sugar. Mix well.

4. Step 4:

   

   Sift about half of the flour together with baking powder. Re-send.

5. Step 5:

   

   Add milk. Add milk right now, because if you add it to the butter mass, it simply would not mix.

6. Step 6:

   

   Mix well. It is not necessary to mix for a long time. If you stir the dough for a long time, it will tighten and become hard and tasteless.

7. Step 7:

   

   Add the second half of the flour and knead a soft, pliable dough. Transfer to a bag and place in the freezer for 15 minutes. The dough will not freeze during this time, but it will cool down and it will be easy to work with.

8. Step 8:

   

   Let's move on to the almond dough. Prepare the ingredients. You can take flour from other nuts.

9. Step 9:

   

   Drive proteins into a bowl, add a pinch of salt. Start whipping at low speed.

10. Step 10:

    

    When a light foam appeared, gradually increase the speed of the mixer and gradually add sugar as well.

11. Step 11:

    

    Beat up to such beautiful strong peaks.

12. Step 12:

    

    Add a teaspoon of vanilla extract. If you use vanilla sugar, then you need to add it together with sugar.

13. Step 13:

    

    Now you need to add almond flour in two approaches.

15. Step 14:

    

    Gently mix the whites with flour, from top to bottom, so that the dough does not fall off.

16. Step 15:

    

    That's such a beautiful dough turned out. Very delicate and airy.

17. Step 16:

    

    Now you need to transfer the dough into a pastry bag. You can take a thick bag.

18. Step 17:

    

    Now the shortbread dough. Lightly dust the work surface with flour.

19. Step 18:

    

    Get the dough out of the freezer.

20. Step 19:

    

    Roll out the dough about 3 millimeters thick. The edges of the dough can be trimmed with your hands.

21. Step 20:

    

    Cut cookies. Dip the mold in flour. Here the shape is about 7 centimeters in diameter. Dip the mold in flour.

22. Step 21:

    

    Put the cookies on a baking sheet covered with parchment paper.

23. Step 22:

    

    Cut off the tip of the cooking bag, the hole should not be very small. Squeeze the dough onto the cookie blanks.

24. Step 23:

    

    Cookies can be decorated with almonds. If you use, for example, walnut flour, you can decorate with walnuts.

25. Step 24:

    

    Bake cookies in a well-heated oven at 170C for 20-25 minutes. Of course you're looking at your oven.

26. Step 25:

    

    These are the cookies that turned out. Very tender, delicious and airy. Bon appetit!