Sweet Almond Paste Biscuits

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My Plate, Your Plate is a storytelling and community arts cooking project where participants share recipes and stories. The project aims to build relationships between local residents and people from refugee and asylum seeker backgrounds, breaking down social isolation, building cultural awareness and solidarity.

This recipe was shared by Ghada, project participant, hear her story and download the recipe below.

Ghada's Story

Photo of Ghada in the kitchen she wears a white tshirt with a black apron over the top, she has blong shoulder length hair and wears glasses.

Transcript

Ghada transcript (DOCX 13.1KB)

Ingredients

1800 grams of ground almonds
300 grams of icing sugar
A small cup of blossom water, or rose water (in between espresso cup and tea cup)
A small cup of water (in between espresso cup and tea cup)
Approximately 100 grams of pistachios (dice more than half for the filling and keep some whole for decorating)

Method

Step 1

Put everything in a bowl and mix well.
Make sure you do good kneading – really strongly to make sure all ingredients are mixed.

Step 2

Shape the mixture into small pieces (about the size of a 50c piece).
Make a hole in the centre with your finger and poke in the chopped pistachios, close the biscuit back up sealing the nuts inside.

Step 3

Place the biscuit inside a biscuit mould (we purchased ours from Auburn) and press into the mould hard then push the biscuit out, alternatively shape into a ball. Place a pistachio ontop.

Allergy warning

Contains nuts, traces of gluten in icing sugar

Download

Sweet Almond Paste Biscuits recipe card (PDF 510KB)