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Almond Paste Recipe

This homemade cookie ingredient adds another wonderful flavor to any cookie recipe. The richness will be your secret ingredient.—Almond Board of California, , x, California

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Almond Paste Recipe

Prep/Total Time: 10 min.

Yield: 52 Servings

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Ingredients

1-1/2 cups (8 ounces) whole blanched almonds
1-1/2 cups (5 ounces) sifted confectioners' sugar
1 egg white
1 teaspoon almond extract
1/4 teaspoon salt

Directions

In a food processor, grind half the almonds until very fine. Remove and repeat with remaining almonds. Total ground nuts will yield 1-3/4 cups. Put all nuts and remaining ingredients in the food processor. Cover and process until a paste forms. Gather together and store, tightly sealed, in a plastic bag. Yield: 1-1/3 cups (13 ounces).

For recipe using above paste see Country Woman n/d 1993 pg. 29 (Rainbow Cookies - Recipe ID# 2521).

Nutritional Facts 1 serving (1/4 ounce) equals 39 calories, 2 g fat (trace saturated fat), 0 cholesterol, 14 mg sodium, 4 g carbohydrate, trace fiber, 1 g protein.

Originally published as Almond Paste in Country Woman November/December 1992, p36