Almond Cookies

I was on a baking spree few days back and baked around 280-290 cookies in 7 different flavours. One of them were these almond cookies. You might feel that I already have one badam pista wheat cookies in my blog. But adding this one too as it has almond flour and the taste n texture was too good that I felt like posting this 🙂

Ingredients:

• Whole wheat flour 200 gm
• Milk powder 25 gm
• Almond flour 50 gm
• Salt a pinch
• Sugar 150 gm
• Butter 125 gm
• Baking powder a pinch
• Baking soda a pinch
• Butter/almond essence 1 tsp
• Chopped almonds 3-4 tbsp
• Milk 1-2 tbsp (optional)

Method:

• Powder the sugar finely. Measure the almonds and grind them into a fine powder.
• Now sieve the wheat flour, salt, almond flour, milk powder and the rising agents 2-3 times.
• Cream the butter and sugar till it becomes pale in colour and fluffy in texture.
• Now add butter essence or almond essence and mix well.
• Slowly add the dry ingredients and mix.
• Add in the finely chopped almonds and save some for sprinkling on top.
• If the mixture looks very dry, sprinkle some milk and assemble everything to form a dough. Do not knead much.
• Line a baking tray with parchment paper and keep it ready.
• Take small ball of the dough and flatten it in your hand and sprinkle some more almond pieces on top and place it on the baking tray. Or flatten little dough in your palm and cut it using a cookie cutter and sprinkle almond pieces.
• Place the cookies on the tray leaving some space in between.
• Refrigerate the tray with the cookies for 15-20 minutes or freeze them for 10 minutes.
• Meanwhile preheat the oven at 150-160 degree Celsius for atleast 10 minutes.
• Bake the cookies for 22-25 minutes or more or less or till the edges are golden in colour.
• Remove the tray from the oven and allow the cookies to remain in the tray for atleast 4-5 minutes.
• Transfer the cookies onto a cooling rack and allow the cookies to cool well.
• Store them in airtight containers and enjoy with your cuppa or coffee.

Notes:

• You can use cardamom powder instead of butter/almond essence.
• Milk powder gives a nice flavour n richness to the cookies and reduces the wheaty flavour.
• Almonds can be replaced with pistachios and you can make pista cookies.
• Almond flour makes the cookies lighter n crunchier. You can either grind whole almonds or blanch them and then deskin them and then grind them.