Baking season continues: Orange-Almond Biscuits

[wiseheart]

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.

Comments

[sammydragoncat]

They sound good, I'll have to try it. Thank you

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Yep, they're very good. This is the first time I tried out this recipe, mostly because I felt it a criminal waste to throw away the whites of the eggyolks used to the marzipan bretzels (even eggs are expensive over here), so I needed something where only the eggwhites were required.

The orange peel, together with the almonds, gives the biscuits a nice, spicy, slightly bitter taste that the kids didn't like too much, but most adults were simply blown away.

[third-charm.livejournal.com]

Ooh! Yummy!

[third-charm.livejournal.com]

If you need to use up egg whites you could always make meringue nests filled with candied and/or dried fruits and nuts. Thy are very pretty and very yummy too! The nests are simple vanilla meringues that are piped into a nest or basket shape and then baked. After they cool you fill them with your favorite candied and/or dried fruit and nut mixture and drizzle them with a bit of treacle/honey/chocolate (whatever you prefer) before serving! They also hold up well to freezing if needed.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

That they are. *g*

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I never manage to make proper meringues, I'ma fraid. They always turn out like dead jelllyfish. :(