Almond Delights

These Almond Delights besides being DELICIOUS,  are so convenient because they are easy to make, can be prepared in advance, up to 2 days and can also be taken anywhere. Take them to the beach, picnic, eat as an after meal treat, serve at tea time or just grab and go……

Ingredients:                        

• 250g     Almonds, fine grounded
• 1          small potato
• 150g     sugar
• 30ml     water

Coatings: Pine nuts, Coconut, Crushed Almonds or Walnuts, Marmalade, etc.

Preparation:

1.       Wash the potato and boil it with the skin on. Once cooked, remove the skin, smash the potato, and mix with the almond.

2.       Bring the sugar and water to a boil and let cook until gets slightly caramelized. Add the almond paste stirring well with a wooden spoon. Let it cool down.

3.       Make balls of about 2.5cm in size. Reserve until cold.

Ready to be coated

For pine-nuts:

Beat an egg white. Deep the balls in the egg white bowl and coat all around. With the help of your hands stick the pine-nuts to the balls. Take to the oven for 5 minutes or until golden brown. Preheated oven for 200ºC

For Coconut:

Same as above  Coconut needs less oven time. Check for the color.

For Marmalade; Quince for instance:

Put a small amount inside the ball and roll it to close. Proceed as above if you want to use any coating.

Ready to bake