Baking season continues: Orange-Almond Biscuits

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And here's the next one: Orange-Almond Biscuits

Ingredients:

75gr butter or margarine
3 eggwhites
120 gr icing sugar
120 gr ground almonds
grated peel of 1 orange
1 pinch of salt.

For the decoration: icing sugar

How to make it:

* pre-heat oven to 200°C
* melt butter (margarine) and allow it to cool a bit;
* wash the orange hot, rub it dry and grate the peel;
* beat eggwhites with 30 gr icing sugar and a pinch of salt;
* mix almonds, the rest of the sugar, the orange peel and the 3rd eggwhite thoroughly;
* add beaten eggyolks carefully;
* fill the mix into paper muffin forms (5 cm diameter) to 2/3 high;
* sprinkle the biscuits with icing sugar;
* bake them for 15-20 minutes;
* let them cool on the tin completely

In a well-sealed tin box, these biscuits remain fresh up to 2 weeks.