Almond Vanilla Cookies

Total Time: 35 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• 1 2/3 cups ground almonds (use food prosessor but be careful as you don't want to end up with paste)
• 1 cup flour
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 cup butter, softened
• 1/3 cup sugar
• 2 tablespoons vanilla
• 1 teaspoon almond extract
• 36 whole almonds

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350° and cover 2 cookie sheets with parchment paper.
• 2 in a medium bowl, mix together chopped almonds, flour, baking powder and salt, set aside.
• 3 in a large mixing bowl cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
• 4 mix in extracts mix in flour mixture until well blended beat until thoroughly combined.
• 5 form dough into 36 balls and place a whole almond in center of each ball.
• 6 bake for about 20 minutes, or until golden brown, check after 15 minutes as i found i needed to turn the temperature down for the second batch.
• 7 note: i baked my second batch at 325° but it could just be my oven that runs hot.