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Hazelnut and cocoa amaretti

Name: Hazelnut and cocoa amaretti
Prep time: 34 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 49 min
Yield: 25 pieces
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 250 g ground hazelnuts; 200 g caster sugar; 20 g powdered cocoa; 60 g egg white; 3 tablespoons icing sugar; 25 hazelnuts

You may already be familiar with almond and lemon amaretti, so here's an equally delicious hazelnut and cocoa version, with a simplified recipe.

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Duration

50 min.

Difficulty

Easy

Last modified on: November 7^th 2026

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For 25 pieces, you will need:

1 250 g ground hazelnuts
2 200 g caster sugar
3 20 g powdered cocoa
4 60 g egg white
5 3 tablespoons icing sugar
6 25 hazelnuts
Total weight: 585 grams

Times for this recipe

Preparation

25 min.

Resting

10 min.

Cooking

15 min.

All in all

50 min.

Preparation 25 min.

Resting 10 min.

Cooking 15 min.

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - ⌛ 3 min.

Pour 250 g ground hazelnuts, 200 g caster sugar and 20 g powdered cocoa into a bowl.

Stage 2 - ⌛ 1 min.

Whisk these powders together.

Stage 3 - ⌛ 2 min.

Add 60 g egg white (60 g = 2 whites) and start mixing with a spoon or spatula.

Stage 4 - ⌛ 1 min.

Finish mixing by hand, it's the easiest way...

Stage 5

...until you obtain a homogeneous paste.

Stage 6 - ⌛ 4 min.

Divide the dough into 20-25 g pieces.

Stage 7 - ⌛ 3 min.

Preheat your oven to 170°C (340°F).

Roll into balls between the palms of your hands.

Note: If you have children around, let them help you, they'll love the "play dough" aspect.

Stage 8

Pour 3 tablespoons icing sugar into a shallow dish (or better still, a mould if you have one).

Coat the dough balls with powdered sugar, in packs of around 5-6, turning the mould on itself.

Stage 9

Then roll the balls in the palm of your hands to remove excess powdered sugar.

You want a very thin layer of powdered sugar all over the dough ball.

Stage 10 - ⌛ 7 min.

Do this for all the balls and place them on a sheet of baking paper (this is important), set on a baking sheet.

Stage 11

Place a hazelnut on each ball, and press down with your fingers to flatten the ball a little and make it crackle on the sides.

Stage 12 - ⌛ 3 min.

Do this for all the balls...

Stage 13 - ⌛ 15 min.

...and bake at 170°C (340°F) for about 15 minutes.

Stage 14 - ⌛ 10 min.

Cool on a wire rack and enjoy.

Remarks

You can mix the dough entirely by hand - it takes 2 or 3 minutes, so there's no need to get out your food processor.

Preferably use shelled hazelnuts to garnish the top.

For a more subtle version, replace half the hazelnut powder with almond powder.

Keeping: Several days in a jar or closed metal box.

Source: Home made.

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Nutritional information

	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats	Calories	Energy
Per 100 g	8 g RDI=13 %	47 g RDI=18 %	29 g RDI=41 %	492 kcal RDI=25 %	2,064 kJ RDI=25 %
Per piece	1 g RDI=3 %	11 g RDI=4 %	6 g RDI=9 %	114 kcal RDI=6 %	479 kJ RDI=6 %
Whole recipe	49 g RDI=76 %	278 g RDI=105 %	172 g RDI=236 %	2,862 kcal RDI=143 %	11,986 kJ RDI=143 %