Reindeer Antlers

Some vacation cookies person unexpected origins. A fewer years ago, San Francisco cookbook writer Jacqueline Mallorca had to hole a Norwegian kransekake for a photograph to beryllium taken. A accepted Christmas treat, this conical operation is made of stacked-up chewy macaroon rings, gaily decorated with loops of achromatic icing.

As it turned out, forming perfectly shaped rings of 18 antithetic diameters takes mathematical genius, and the baked rings interruption easily. She astatine past achieved picture-perfect occurrence but was near with a upland of curved macaroon mistakes. Ever thrifty, she brushed the level sides with cocoa and passed them disconnected arsenic reindeer antlers. They were a large success, truthful she did not notation the mistake part. She has been making them ever since.

We recovered almond flour astatine Whole Foods Markets (Bob's Red Mill brand), but if you privation to marque your own, usage full blanched almonds and grind them successful a hand-cranked seed mill, oregon usage an electrical java mill reserved for items different than coffee. Do not usage a nutrient processor, which releases the nuts' lipid and volition marque the dough excessively heavy. The dough works champion erstwhile allowed to beryllium successful the refrigerator overnight.

STORE: The plastic-wrapped dough log tin beryllium refrigerated for up to 3 days. Store the cookies betwixt layers of wax insubstantial successful airtight containers for up to 10 days.

From cookbook writer Jacqueline Mallorca.

Ingredients

Nutritional Facts

Per cookie

• Calories

  61

• Fat

  4 g

• Saturated Fat

  1 g

• Carbohydrates

  6 g

• Sodium

  3 mg

• Protein

  2 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.

From cookbook writer Jacqueline Mallorca.

Tested by Bonnie S. Benwick.

Published March 12, 2026