Almond pastes (like bakery)

All the almond pastes that you see in the photo they taste like people. Maybe it's because they have butter, or because of the almond ... I can't tell you, but the truth is that they have nothing to envy the cookies that we can buy in traditional bakeries. In the video that you will find below you can see how they are prepared.

Do not be afraid to use manteca to make sweets. You will find it in any supermarket and it will allow you to prepare recipes as traditional as the ensaimadas or these great angel hair cakes.

Almond pastes

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Some traditional cookies made with lard. As rich as those that we can find in good bakeries.

• Ascen Jimenez

• Kitchen: cuisine
• Recipe type: breakfast
• Calories: 120
• Rations: 40

• Cooking time: 35M
• Total time: 35M

Ingredients

To make the dough:

• 50 g almonds
• 60 g of sugar
• The skin of 1/2 lemon (only the yellow part)
• 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
• 100 g of lard
• 30 g olive oil
• 1 yolk
• 200 g of wheat flour
• 1 pinch of baking soda

For the surface:

• 1 egg white
• Almonds (about 40 units)
• A bit of sugar

Preparation

1. We preheat the oven to 170 °.

2. We put the almonds in the glass. We program 30 seconds, speed 10. We take out and reserve.

3. We put the sugar, the lemon peel and the cinnamon in the glass. We program 30 seconds, speed 10.

4. Now add the crushed almonds, the butter, the oil and the yolk. With the spatula we lower what is left on the walls of the glass and mix a little. We program 15 seconds, speed 6.

5. We now add the wheat flour and the baking soda. We program 1 minute, spike speed.

6. We take out the dough and knead lightly with our hands. We make a roll and cut portions of approximately one centimeter.

7. We put an almond on each cookie and brush the surface of each portion with beaten egg white. We sprinkle sugar on each cookie.

8. Bake at 170 ° for approximately 12 minutes or until golden brown.

Notes

We can also shape them using a roller and pasta cutter. We will create with the roller a sheet approximately one centimeter thick and then we will cut our cookies with the pasta cutter that we want. To make double the cookies we will only have to double the ingredients. We can make them in a single batch in our Thermomix and then use two oven trays. If we double the amount it is important that we leave the spatula in the glass (as seen in the video) while the spike speed is on.

In case it helps you…

The almonds that I have used have skin but you can use peeled almonds. If yours are unpeeled and you want to peel them, you will only have to scald them for a few minutes and you can easily remove the skins.

The almond that we will chop is better toast (a few minutes in the oven will be enough). The ones that we will place on the surface will be raw because it will toast when cooking the cookies.

More information - Ensaimadas, Angel hair cupcakes

Adapt this recipe to your Thermomix model