Recipe for Catalan Almond Sweets


are a traditional sweet from Catalu prepared for de Todos los Santos or All Saints Day and served with moscatel or Spanish sparkling wine. It is made of equal parts ground almonds and sugar, formed into balls and decorated with pine nuts, rolled in cocoa powder, candied cherries or coconut flakes. They can also be flavored with coffee or cinnamon. Pour 1/2 cup water into the pan and stir to dissolve sugar. Add more water to completely dissolve sugar if necessary. Place on medium heat on stovetop and bring to a boil, stirring often. Add 3 4 drops of lemon juice. Reduce heat and simmer until mixture is a thick syrup.


Remove saucepan from heat. Using a large wooden spoon, gradually stir in ground almonds, potato and grated lemon peel. Allow to cool to room temperature. Then, cover tightly and refrigerate overnight.


Pre heat oven to 380F degrees. Grease cookie sheets. Spoon out dough with a teaspoon. Roll dough into small balls in your palms. Then roll the balls in powdered cocoa or pine nuts. If using pine nuts, brush each with a bit of egg white. Place on greased cookie sheet.


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Bake cookies just long enough to brown the pine nuts about 4 minutes. Using a spatula, remove immediately before cookies cool.


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A Typo Somewhere?, Member CuriousKris


This recipe didn't work for me, and I'm wondering if there might be a typo or something left out [url=http://www.giantsnflofficialauthentic.com/authentic-weston-richburg-jersey.... in the instructions.? First, any particular kind of potato? I used a basic red one. The almond/potato/lemon mixture you make and refrigerate was certainly delicious and promising. The problem I had was with the baking of these sweets. Couldn't remove them from the cookie sheets so that they'd maintain any kind of shape.