Calissons d’Aix

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These petite, diamond-shaped confections are the eventual elegant no-bake cookie, with a bladed basal of firm, almond-apricot jam paste and royal icing connected top.

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The calissons tin beryllium stored successful an airtight instrumentality astatine country somesthesia for up to 2 weeks.

Adapted from “Payard Cookies,” by Francois Payard with Anne E. McBride (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015).

Ingredients

measuring cup

Servings: 110 1 1/2-inch cookies

3 1/3 cups slivered (skinless) almonds oregon 4 2/3 cups skinless sliced almonds
1 cupful granulated sugar
1/3 cupful positive 2 tablespoons apricot jam
2/3 cupful chopped candied orangish peel
1/2 cupful positive 1/3 cupful confectioners' sugar
1 ample ovum white

Nutritional Facts

Per cookie

Calories
35
Fat
2 g
Carbohydrates
5 g
Sugar
3 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 “Payard Cookies,” by Francois Payard with Anne E. McBride (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015).

Tested by Jane Touzalin.

Published November 30, 2015

Updated March 15, 2026