Nevada · Dessert
Nevada Pine Nut Cookies
- Intermediate
- 50 min
- roughly 1 of 4 for cost
- Vegetarian
Leads with toasted, nutty warmth throughout.
Ingredients
- 200g pine nuts (from the single-leaf pinyon)
- 200g almond paste
- 150g sugar
- 2 egg whites
- 1/4 tsp salt
- Icing sugar to dust
Equipment
Sheet pan
The skills inside
The words inside
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Method
- Break up the almond paste and beat with the sugar until crumbly.
- Beat in the egg whites and salt to a sticky dough.
- Roll spoonfuls into balls and press each into a bowl of pine nuts to coat all over.
- Set on lined trays and flatten slightly.
- Bake at 165C for 15-18 min until golden. Dust with icing sugar when cool. 18 min
How to tell it is going right
This dish has no standard of its own yet. It is judged on the technique it exercises: checked at the pan, while there is still something to be done about it.
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- The pieces match: weighed, or judged against each other rather than by dividing the mass by eye, so that no piece is half again the size of its neighbour.
- Surfaces are smooth and unbroken with no cracks, tears, or dry patches, and the seams are sealed and sitting underneath.
- The shape is defined and it holds while the tray waits: it has not slumped, spread, or relaxed back out of its form.
- Nothing is trapped that should not be: no air pocket where filling should be, no filling breaking through the surface, and no excess flour greying the outside.
- They finish together in the heat: no piece done while another is still raw, which is the only test that the first mark was met.
Where it goes wrong The dough was worked past its point or shaped without a rest, so it fought back: the pieces spring out of shape on the tray and bake tight, uneven, and torn along the surface.
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