4.2 from 20 votes
Espresso Amaretti Cookies
This espresso amaretti cookies recipe is a super easy one that gives you light as air amaretti cookies with just 3 ingredients! I love spiking up my amaretti cookies with espresso for a richer deeper aroma, but even without espresso, these cookies are a fluffy light almond dream with a slight crunch! Totally fat free and just loaded with almond goodness, these espresso amaretti cookies are on the skinny side of sweet pleasures!
Prep Time
15 mins
Cook Time
20 mins
Total Time
35 mins
Servings:
18
Calories:
99 kcal
Course:
Baked Goods
Cuisine:
Italian
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups almonds
- 2/3 cup confectioners sugar
- 2 tablespoons espresso beans
- 1 tablespoon corn starch optional, to add extra stability to the cookies
- 2 egg large, white
- salt pinch
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 4 Tablespoons regular sugar
Notes
- Your egg whites have to be well separated form the yolks, otherwise they won't fluff.
- Once you start beating the egg whites, don't stop until they're ready!
- Processing the dry ingredients makes them softer and easier to fold. You can sift them after that for extra easy to work with batter.
- If you don't have a piping bag, simply dollop tablespoons of cookie batter on your baking sheet.
- Watch for baking times, they vary from oven to another.
- Swap the espresso for a vanilla or chai or any flavor you like.