Recipe: Delicious Amaretti biscuits

Amaretti biscuits.

You can have Amaretti biscuits using 6 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Amaretti biscuits

1. Prepare 200 gr. of ground almonds.
2. It's 200 gr. of sugar.
3. It's 3 of heaped desert spoons flour.
4. You need 70 gr. of egg whites.
5. Prepare 1/2 of cdta. lemon extract.
6. Prepare 1 pinch of salt.

Amaretti biscuits step by step

1. Put the flour, almonds, sugar and salt in a bowl (I didn't bother with sifting).
2. Whisk the egg whites. When they are firm add the lemon extract (or almond) to the whites and stir gently.
3. Add the egg white mixture to the bowl. Mix with a spoon and then with your hands to get a smooth dough..
4. Roll into little balls and lay out on a baking tray lined with grease proof paper. Leave for 15 minutes, so they harden up a little. Put the oven on at 150ºC and put the baking tray in for 15 minutes or until small cracks appear on the top of the biscuits. Take out of the oven and leave 5 minutes on the baking tray..
5. Then transfer to a rack and leave to finish cooling. Delicious!!.