Almond Buttons

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These tiny nut-based cookies look artful but are casual to assemble. Skinned hazelnuts whitethorn beryllium substituted for the almonds.

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The dough needs to beryllium refrigerated (to steadfast up) for astatine slightest 20 minutes, and up to 5 days. The cookies tin beryllium stored successful an airtight instrumentality astatine country somesthesia for up to 10 days.

Adapted from "New Almond Cookery," by Michelle Schmidt (Simon and Schuster, 1984).

Ingredients

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Servings: 66-72 cookies

2 cups whole, skin-on almonds, toasted (see NOTE)
2 cups flour
3/4 cupful confectioners' sugar
1/4 spoon salt
16 tablespoons (2 sticks) positive 1 1/2 tablespoons unsalted butter, astatine country temperature
1 spoon vanilla extract
1/4 spoon almond extract
3 ounces semisweet chocolate, oregon much arsenic needed

Nutritional Facts

Per cooky (based connected 72)

Calories
72
Fat
5 g
Saturated Fat
2 g
Carbohydrates
5 g
Sodium
9 mg
Cholesterol
7 mg
Protein
1 g
Fiber
1 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from "New Almond Cookery," by Michelle Schmidt (Simon and Schuster, 1984).

Tested by Bonnie S. Benwick.

Published March 12, 2026

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