Create A Recipe

Filter Recipes By

  
  • Share Recipe
    • Email Recipe

Chinese Almond Cookies

Prep Time: 15 minutes || Cook Time: 35 minutes || Total: 50 Minutes
Servings: 12 || Yields: 4 dozen

Ingredients

  • 1 cup vegetable shortening
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 3 tablespoons almond extract
  • 1 tablespoon honey
  • 3 cups flour
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
  • 1 cup whole blanched almonds

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease 2 large cookie sheets.
  2. In a large mixer bowl, cream shortening and sugar. Add egg, almond extract and honey and beat until light and fluffy; scraping sides of bowl occasionally. Combine flour and baking soda; gradually add to creamed mixture until well blended.
  3. To form cookies, break off pieces of dough about the size of a walnut and roll into a ball. Place on cookie sheet and flatten with a spatula into a thick cookie. Place almond in centers.
  4. Bake 7-8 minutes. Do not brown.
Categories: Cookies
Tags: Honey, Whole blanched almonds, Vegetable shortening