Almond Crumble Sharing Cookie

2 days ago 5

Democracy Dies successful Darkness

When a streusel substance meshes with a shortbread-style dough, thing fantastic happens: An irresistibly buttery, craggy cooky takes shape.

The ample almond cookie, truly a wide of crumbly nuggets ample and small, becomes a large disk for sharing, to beryllium presented full and breached disconnected by manus into casual pieces.

Almond meal, a somewhat flakier mentation of crushed almonds, on with blanched almonds (slivered oregon sliced), flour and a interaction of cornmeal, physique the heft of the dough; butter, sweetener and 2 extracts found its texture and level of saccharine richness. Working the substance by manus into sandy clumps gives the cooky a rustic appeal.

Serve with beardown coffee, saccharine wine, a vessel of poached pears oregon a cinnamon-stick-spiced dried-fruit compote.

Almond repast is disposable arsenic Just Almond Meal successful 16-ounce bags astatine Trader Joe's.

Turbinado sweetener made from evaporated cane foodstuff (365 Whole Foods Market brand) is disposable successful 2-pound bags astatine country Whole Foods Markets; turbinado sweetener is besides disposable successful bulk bins astatine immoderate earthy foods stores. In this recipe, turbinado sweetener lends a flimsy caramel spirit and crunchy texture to the baked cookie. Granulated sweetener tin beryllium substituted, but the cooky volition cook up a spot denser.

The cooky tin beryllium stored successful an airtight tin for up to 1 week.

From Washington cookbook writer Lisa Yockelson.

Ingredients

measuring cup

Servings: 20 ample oregon 35 tiny craggy pieces

For the dough

1 2/3 cups positive 2 tablespoons flour (dip-and-sweep flour into measuring cupful and level off)
2 tablespoons cornmeal (preferably white, but yellowish tin beryllium substituted)
1 1/2 cups almond repast (see headnote; whitethorn substitute crushed almonds)
1/4 spoon baking powder
1/4 spoon salt
2/3 cupful positive 3 tablespoons turbinado sweetener (see headnote)
16 tablespoons (2 sticks) acold unsalted butter, chopped into tablespoon-size chunks
2 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 1/4 teaspoons almond extract
1/3 cupful blanched sliced oregon slivered almonds

For the finish

2 tablespoons turbinado sugar, for sprinkling connected the unbaked cookie

Nutritional Facts

Per serving (based connected 25)

Calories
180
Fat
11 g
Saturated Fat
5 g
Carbohydrates
17 g
Sodium
30 mg
Cholesterol
20 mg
Protein
3 g
Fiber
1 g
Sugar
8 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.

From Washington cookbook writer Lisa Yockelson.

Tested by Lucy Shackelford.

Published September 14, 2010

Updated March 13, 2026