Almond hearts

These have only just come out of the oven, and they were soooo scrumptious, I just had to share the recipe with someone, or I'd burst!!!

It doesn't take long to make - and if you have all the ingredients, you could be done in about 30 minutes. And if, you're not like me, and you make them thinner, they won't take as long to bake as mine did.

Almond Hearts

You'll need:

2 1/2 cups ground almonds
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 cup melted butter
1/4 cup sugar (I used 'bluff' brown sugar)
1/4 cup gula melaka (or palm sugar, for the uninitiated)
1/4 cup coconut milk (more or less: depending on how well your biscuit dough forms)
1/2 cup cashewnut bits

How you make them:

1. Put all the dry ingredients in a bowl, and mix them together.
2. Add in the wet ingredients, and mix them to form a dough.
3. You could roll it out between two sheets of paper and cut out heart shapes.
4. OR: you could do what I did: put the heart-shaped biscuit cutter on the tray; make a ball with the dough, and with the back of a teaspoon, press it into the shape. Lift off the cutter, and voila! you've got a nice, heart biscuit :)
5. Bake it in the oven at 180 degrees (or 350 degrees) - but, for how long? If they're big, fat cookies like mine, they'll take about 30 minutes to nicely brown. If they're thin, they should take about 15 minutes or so. Don't pop them in and forget them: keep your eyes on them, and when they start browning at the edges, decide how long more you'd like to leave them in.
6. When they're done, leave them on the tray to cool - because they'll still be soft.
7. When completely cool, put them on a plate, take a picture of them, and then pop them in an air-tight bottle ;) 

Do try these, they're the cat's whiskers, I tell you!