Italian Wedding Cookies
Italian wedding cookies are shortbread-like cookies that are tossed in powder sugar and made with only a few simple ingredients!
Ingredients
- 115 g Butter softened
- ⅓ teaspoon Kosher salt
- ⅓ cup Granulated sugar more 2 tbsp
- 1 cup Almond flour
- 1 cup Flour
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla extract
- Powder sugar to roll
Instructions
- Preheat an oven to 180c (350f) and prepare a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Into a medium sized mixing bowl, add the softened butter, vanilla extract, salt, and granulated sugar and mix with an electric hand mixer until well combined and creamy.
- Add the almond flour and mix until combined.
- Add the flour and mix until just combined and there are no lumps of flour showing.
- Scoop out about 1 tablespoon of the batter and shape it into a ball. We used a small cookie scoop to scoop out the cookies, this way they are even in size and will bake evenly.
- Place the cookie dough balls on a parchment paper-lined baking sheet, and bake in a 180c (350f) preheated oven for 11 minutes.
- Let the cookies cool for 5 minutes. Fill a medium mixing bowl with powder sugar and roll each cookie in the powder sugar. Serve and Enjoy!
Notes
- Use room temperature ingredients. It is important that you use room-temperature ingredients like butter. This step ensures that your mixture mixes into a homogenous mixture and bakes perfectly.
- Don’t overmix the batter, you don’t want to develop the gluten in the flour. This step ensures you have moist and tender cookies and not dense and dry cookies.
- Use a cookies scoop to scoop out the cookies, that way you will have even-sized cookies, plus it ensures that your cookies bake evenly.
- Make sure that your butter is at room temperature. An hour or two before making these cookies, take the butter out of the fridge and let it come to room temperature. The butter should be soft to the touch. If your butter is too cold, it will be harder to mix and there will be lumps of butter in the dough.
- Measure your flour correctly! When measuring your flour, avoid scooping it with a measuring cup. Instead, stir the flour with a spoon to create as many air pockets as possible, and spoon it into your measuring cup. Finally, level it with a back of a knife.
- Line your sheet pan with parchment paper or a silicone mat! This step helps the cookies to bake evenly, and it makes sure that your cookies release easily from the pan.
- Before you start to make this recipe, measure and prepare your ingredients so the cooking process will go smoothly and easily.
Nutrition
Calories: 91kcalCarbohydrates: 8gProtein: 2gFat: 6gSaturated Fat: 3gPolyunsaturated Fat: 0.2gMonounsaturated Fat: 1gTrans Fat: 0.2gCholesterol: 10mgSodium: 63mgPotassium: 7mgFiber: 1gSugar: 3gVitamin A: 120IUCalcium: 12mgIron: 0.4mg
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