I was surprised to see a recipe for Golden Almond Cookies in Shauna Sever's Midwest Made. After all, these are the cookies you find at Asian bakeries. But Shauna points out that one of American's top almond cookie producers -- Golden Dragon -- is located in Chicago, and you can walk in and buy fresh cookies right from the source.
To make the cookie dough, you mix almond flour with sugar, flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, shortening, eggs, and almond extract. (If you start the recipe with whole almonds or almond pieces instead of almond flour, you can make the dough in a food processor instead of a mixer.) You can scoop and bake the dough immediately. I used a #24 scoop and got 23 cookies from a batch. You flatten the cookies with the bottom of a drinking glass dipped in sugar and brush them with egg yolk before baking.
When I flattened the cookies before putting them in the oven, the edges of the cookies cracked as the dough expanded outward. The cookies maintained their cracked edges after baking and I thought they looked a bit untidy. But I was thrilled with how they tasted. The cookies were thick, dense, buttery, and very almond-y. I could eat a pile of these, and they kept well. We only had leftovers for a few days but Shauna says you can store them for a week.
There is no need to go to Chicago or even your nearest Asian bakery to enjoy fresh, scrumptious almond cookies at home. This recipe is so easy and has a great payoff for the modest amount of effort required.
Recipe: "Golden Almond Cookies" from Midwest Made by Shauna Sever.
To make the cookie dough, you mix almond flour with sugar, flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, shortening, eggs, and almond extract. (If you start the recipe with whole almonds or almond pieces instead of almond flour, you can make the dough in a food processor instead of a mixer.) You can scoop and bake the dough immediately. I used a #24 scoop and got 23 cookies from a batch. You flatten the cookies with the bottom of a drinking glass dipped in sugar and brush them with egg yolk before baking.
There is no need to go to Chicago or even your nearest Asian bakery to enjoy fresh, scrumptious almond cookies at home. This recipe is so easy and has a great payoff for the modest amount of effort required.
Recipe: "Golden Almond Cookies" from Midwest Made by Shauna Sever.
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