Cocoa Almond cookies

These melt in mouth cookies were an accidental one when I was on my way to bake some macaroons. I used the similar steps as macaroons, but my quantity of egg whites was more than the macaroons needed and I was thinking now what will I do with the batter. But even if it was flowy, just pipe it with some space between.

We got the best ever cookies I made, and that too Almond one. Another guilt free version of cookies, as there is no gluten flour going in. I was a little upset as my macaroon experiment was a failure. But to my surprise this was most loved at home, especially by my hubby. I cooled them and packed in a cookie tin and not even took photos of it first. Then for evening tea, I asked him to give it a try and was explaining sadly about my failed experiment.

He was a bit hesitated to taste it first, as he was going to try a failure :P but after the first bite itself, he asked me, "are there more". First I thought it is a sarcastic tone, but realized that this guy loved it so much, when he was going one after the other cookie.

Now I am confident to take the snaps of it, and Gauthu was all supportive for the photo shoot. He did even wait for having his tea, to complete the photo shoot, as his tea was one of the props for the photo ;)

So don't hesitate to make it yourselves too. You would enjoy for sure and its my guarantee that not even a single piece would go waste :)

Ingredients:
Almond flour - 2 cups
Confectioneries sugar - 1 cup
Cocoa powder - 1/4 cup
Eggs - 3 whites + 1 white extra
Salt to taste
Castor sugar - 1 cup

Method:
Sift together almond flour, confectioneries sugar and cocoa. Add one egg white to it and mix well.

Whip together 3 egg whites and salt till frothy. Add sugar little by little and whip until stiff peaks. This is the meringue.

Gently fold in meringue to almond mix. Fill the batter in a piping bag and pipe into cookies, on a cookie sheet lines with parchment. It would be flowy, so keep atleast 2 inch space in between. Allow it to set for 15 to 20 minutes. Bake in preheated oven at 180 C for 15 minutes.

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