This recipe is very popular for celebration such as Hari Raya/Eid Mubarak or Chinese New Year.This recipe makes about 120 pieces. If kept in air-tight containers it can last for 2 to 3 weeks.
Ingredients:
- 250g whole almond
- 100g almonds nibs
- 250g butter
- 90g icing sugar
- 2 egg yolks
- 250g plain flour
- 200g cup corn flour
- 2 tbsp rice flour
- 50g cornflakes powder
- 2 tbsp milk powder
- 500g cooking chocolate
- 1-2 tbsp of shortening
- Extra mini cupcake baking cups
Instructions:
- Cut cold butter into 1 cm cubes and leave at room temperature to soften.
- Prepare the almonds:
- Preheat the oven to 150°C.
- Roast the whole almonds for about 10 minutes.
- Roast the almond nibs for about 7 minutes or until it is light brown in colour.
- Grind the cornflakes into fine powder.
- Sift all flour- plain flour, corn flour, and rice flour and set aside.
- Separate the egg white and the egg yolk into a bowl. We only need the egg yolks.
- Put butter in a mixing bowl and add icing sugar.
- Beat the butter and icing sugar until it turn light yellow. Do not over beat the mixture.
- Add the egg yolks and beat again.
- Add the flour and cornflakes mixture, a spoon at a time.
- Continue to mix the dough by hand. Add butter if mixture is too dry.
- Rest the mixture for 10 minutes.
- Put mixture in large food bag and roll into a log.
- Divide the mixture into about 120 balls.
- Preheat oven to 170°C. Grease and line oven tray.
- Wrap the whole almond with the dough and bake in the oven for about 10-15 minutes.
- Take out from oven and leave to cool on the cooling rack.
- Prepare melting chocolate with the double boil method.
- Add 1-2 tablespoon of shortening (vegetables fat) to the chocolate melts.
- Dip the almond cookies into the melted chocolate, and arrange it inside the extra mini cupcake baking cups.
- Sprinkle with the the roasted almond nibs.
- Leave to cool until the chocolate is hardened before eating and storing in air tight container.
Graphical Instructions:
Cut cold butter into 1 cm cubes and leave at room temperature to soften.
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