Cantucci di Prato

A recipe from cooking-ez.com

For 40 pieces, you will need:

• 1 300 g flour
• 2 6 g baking powder
• 3 2 pinches salt
• 4 125 g whole almonds
• 5 2 eggs
• 6 60 g butter
• 7 200 g caster sugar
• Total weight: 795 grams

Times:

Preparation	Cooking	Start to finish
25 min.	35 min.	60 min.

Step by step recipe

1	Preheat your oven to 180°C (360°F). Sift together in a bowl 300 g flour, 6 g baking powder and 2 pinches salt.
2	Add 125 g whole almonds and 2 eggs.
3	Then 200 g caster sugar and 60 g butter melted.
4	Mix, by hand or with a wooden spatula, until smooth.
5	Place the dough on your lightly floured work surface, and cut it in 2.
6	Form each piece of dough into a cylinder, about 4 cm (1.6 inches) in diameter, and place on a baking sheet protected by a sheet of baking paper.
7	Bake in the oven for 30-35 minutes.
8	Cut, still warm, in small pieces...
9	...and let cool on a rack.

Remarks

The dough of the cookies does not need to be kneaded, just mixed, it is useless to insist once the mixture made in the stage 4.
One can decline the recipe with other dry fruits, as the pistachio for example.

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