{"id":12943,"date":"2016-12-10T16:16:44","date_gmt":"2016-12-10T14:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/77.104.163.26\/~nimrods4\/en\/?p=12943"},"modified":"2022-01-15T11:10:59","modified_gmt":"2022-01-15T09:10:59","slug":"italian-amaretti-cookies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lilcookie.com\/italian-amaretti-cookies\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian Amaretti Cookies"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"cb-itemprop\" itemprop=\"reviewBody\"><p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The first time I tasted Marzipan &#8211; I couldn&#8217;t stand this almond-y treat. Something in its texture and smell was simply not to my taste, and it took me lots of tried to finally realize I actually really like marzipan. I think the first thing that came across as delicious-even-though-it-has-marzipan-flavor were Amaretti cookies.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Amaretti cookies are an Italian traditional cookies, and ever since I first tasted them &#8211; they became one of my top favorite cookie in the world. I love the rich almond flavor, the chewy texture and the fact that these cookies are simply delicious and so easy to make.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">These Amaretti cookies are the perfect treat to enjoy with your coffee in the morning or in the afternoon. It&#8217;s gluten free so they are also perfect for Passover or for people who regularly avoid gluten and\/or wheat flour.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8433\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8433\" class=\"wp-image-8433\" title=\"Italian Amaretti Cookies \" src=\"http:\/\/oogio.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/amaretti_cookies-s.jpg\" alt=\"Italian Amaretti Cookies \" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8433\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Natalie Levin<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6091382327871787\" data-ad-slot=\"7832461759\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><!--WPRM Recipe 20334--><\/p>\n<div class=\"wprm-fallback-recipe\">\n<h2 class=\"wprm-fallback-recipe-name\">Italian Amaretti Cookies<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wprm-fallback-recipe-summary\">\n\t\tBased on a recipe of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidlebovitz.com\/italian-almond-cookies-amaretti-recipe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">David Lebovitz<\/a>, with some changes and minor adjustments.\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"wprm-fallback-recipe-equipment\">\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"wprm-fallback-recipe-ingredients\">\n<h4>For the cookies:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>3 large egg whites (at room temperature)<\/li>\n<li>Pinch of salt<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 tsp. vanilla extract<\/li>\n<li>300 grams blanched almond meal<\/li>\n<li>200 grams (1 cup) sugar<\/li>\n<li>2 tbsp. apricot jam<\/li>\n<li>2 tbsp. amaretto liqueur<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>For topping:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>200 grams sliced blanched almonds<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<div class=\"wprm-fallback-recipe-instructions\">\n<ol>\n<li>Preheat oven to 160c degrees and line a baking tray with baking paper.<\/li>\n<li>In a mixer bowl, whip egg whites, salt and vanilla until you get a stable and soft meringue.<\/li>\n<li>Add ground almonds and sugar and fold gently until smooth.<\/li>\n<li>Add apricot jam and amaretto liqueur and continue to fold gently until slightly sticky dough is formed.<\/li>\n<li>Put sliced almonds in a flat plate.<\/li>\n<li>With slightly wet hands take small pieces of dough and coat in sliced almonds. Create an elongated shape.<\/li>\n<li>Put the cookies on the pan.<\/li>\n<li>Bake for about 18-25 minutes or until golden brown.<\/li>\n<li>Cool completely and serve.<\/li>\n<\/ol><\/div>\n<div class=\"wprm-fallback-recipe-notes\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left\">Keep the Amaretti cookies in a sealed box for up to a week.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left\">These cookies do not contain flour, therefore are suitable for Passover and people who do not eat gluten.<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<div class=\"wprm-fallback-recipe-meta\">\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--End WPRM Recipe--><\/p>\n<\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first time I tasted Marzipan &#8211; I couldn&#8217;t stand this almond-y treat. Something in its texture and smell was simply not to my taste, and it took me lots of tried to finally realize I actually really like marzipan. I think the first thing that came across as delicious-even-though-it-has-marzipan-flavor were Amaretti cookies. Amaretti cookies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33735,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2947,1591,1594,1593,1560],"tags":[1830,1834],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Italian Amaretti Cookies | Lil&#039; Cookie<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lilcookie.com\/italian-amaretti-cookies\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Italian Amaretti Cookies | Lil&#039; Cookie\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The first time I tasted Marzipan &#8211; I couldn&#8217;t stand this almond-y treat. Something in its texture and smell was simply not to my taste, and it took me lots of tried to finally realize I actually really like marzipan. I think the first thing that came across as delicious-even-though-it-has-marzipan-flavor were Amaretti cookies. Amaretti cookies [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.lilcookie.com\/italian-amaretti-cookies\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Lil&#039; Cookie\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/lilcookieblog\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"#\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-12-10T14:16:44+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-01-15T09:10:59+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.lilcookie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/amaretti_cookies-s.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1000\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"667\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Natalie\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Natalie\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.lilcookie.com\/italian-amaretti-cookies\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.lilcookie.com\/italian-amaretti-cookies\/\",\"name\":\"Italian Amaretti Cookies | Lil&#039; Cookie\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.lilcookie.com\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2016-12-10T14:16:44+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-01-15T09:10:59+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.lilcookie.com\/#\/schema\/person\/33c11827628c2c54f6ad460a01b12498\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.lilcookie.com\/italian-amaretti-cookies\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.lilcookie.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.lilcookie.com\/\",\"name\":\"Lil&#039; Cookie\",\"description\":\"Sweet Baking Blog\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.lilcookie.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.lilcookie.com\/#\/schema\/person\/33c11827628c2c54f6ad460a01b12498\",\"name\":\"Natalie\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.lilcookie.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5c707fd99fca6b1807eb6df1cb44847d?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5c707fd99fca6b1807eb6df1cb44847d?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Natalie\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.lilcookie.com\",\"#\"]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Italian Amaretti Cookies | Lil&#039; Cookie","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.lilcookie.com\/italian-amaretti-cookies\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Italian Amaretti Cookies | Lil&#039; Cookie","og_description":"The first time I tasted Marzipan &#8211; I couldn&#8217;t stand this almond-y treat. Something in its texture and smell was simply not to my taste, and it took me lots of tried to finally realize I actually really like marzipan. I think the first thing that came across as delicious-even-though-it-has-marzipan-flavor were Amaretti cookies. Amaretti cookies [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/www.lilcookie.com\/italian-amaretti-cookies\/","og_site_name":"Lil&#039; Cookie","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/lilcookieblog\/","article_author":"#","article_published_time":"2016-12-10T14:16:44+00:00","article_modified_time":"2022-01-15T09:10:59+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1000,"height":667,"url":"https:\/\/www.lilcookie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/amaretti_cookies-s.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Natalie","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Natalie","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.lilcookie.com\/italian-amaretti-cookies\/","url":"https:\/\/www.lilcookie.com\/italian-amaretti-cookies\/","name":"Italian Amaretti Cookies | Lil&#039; Cookie","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.lilcookie.com\/#website"},"datePublished":"2016-12-10T14:16:44+00:00","dateModified":"2022-01-15T09:10:59+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.lilcookie.com\/#\/schema\/person\/33c11827628c2c54f6ad460a01b12498"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.lilcookie.com\/italian-amaretti-cookies\/"]}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.lilcookie.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.lilcookie.com\/","name":"Lil&#039; Cookie","description":"Sweet Baking Blog","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.lilcookie.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.lilcookie.com\/#\/schema\/person\/33c11827628c2c54f6ad460a01b12498","name":"Natalie","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.lilcookie.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5c707fd99fca6b1807eb6df1cb44847d?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5c707fd99fca6b1807eb6df1cb44847d?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Natalie"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.lilcookie.com","#"]}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lilcookie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12943"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lilcookie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lilcookie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lilcookie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lilcookie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12943"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.lilcookie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40951,"href":"https:\/\/www.lilcookie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12943\/revisions\/40951"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lilcookie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lilcookie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lilcookie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lilcookie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}