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Pine Nut Cookies

Pine Nut Cookies are low sugar, almond paste, pine nuts cookies. Italian recipe aka Biscotti ai Pignolli.

Course Dessert
Cuisine Italian
Keyword Pine Nut Cookies
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Total Time 30 minutes
Servings 12 cookies
Author 2pots2cook

Ingredients

  • 1 cup all purpose flour
  • ½ tsp baking powder
  • Pinch of salt
  • 3 ½ Tbsp icing sugar
  • 1 Tbsp vanilla extract
  • 1 egg
  • 2 ½ Tbsp marzipan
  • 1 ½ Tbsp butter
  • ½ cup pine nuts
  • powdered sugar, optional

Instructions

  1. In a medium sized bowl, mix flour, baking powder, salt, icing sugar, vanilla extract, egg, marzipan and butter to get smooth dough.
  2. Preheat the oven to 180 C / 356 F.

  3. Cover baking sheet cake pan with parchment paper.

  4. On a working surface, form a dough roll and cut it to 12 pieces of same size.
  5. Put pignoli in a shallow bowl.

  6. Shape the dough pieces into the balls and flatten them gently pressing each of them to get plain cookies.

  7. Roll the balls into the pignoli and place onto the baking paper. Decorate with pine nuts on the top.

  8. Bake for 15 minutes. If you bake them for first time, keep an eye on them since 15 minutes may be too long, depending on your oven.

  9. Leave to cool completely and then carefully place onto a plate.

  10. Before serving, you may dust the cookies with powdered sugar.