Chocolate Ginger Almond Cookies

Recipe From What's For Lunch, Honey?

Prep Time: 30 minutes

Total Time: 1 hour

Yields: 30-40 cookies

Ingredients:

• 100g candied ginger, chopped

• 300g dark chocolate, coarsely chopped

• 500g ground almonds

• 100g icing sugar

• ½ teaspoon ground cardamom

• 350g fine sugar

• Pinch of salt

• 2 egg whites

• Handful flour

• 100g dark chocolate, coarsely chopped

Method:

1. Place 150g dark chocolate in a double boiler and melt until smooth. Allow to cool.Pre-heat oven to 220 degrees C.

2. In a clean bowl add the ground almonds, icing sugar, cardamom, sugar, salt, chopped candied ginger and the remaining chocolate in a bowl. Pour the melted chocolate and the egg whites and mix together until it comes together into smooth. homogeneous dough.

3. Scatter some flour on the countertop and quickly roll out the dough into a 25 x 25 cm square, about 2 cm thick. Cut into smaller squares then each square diagonally to give you triangles.

4. Place the triangles on a baking tray, 2cm apart, then back for about 4-5 minutes. Take out of oven and allow to cool completely.

5. Meanwhile, melt the 100g dark chocolate in a double boiler. Once melted, dip one side of the triangles into the chocolate and allow to dry on some baking paper.

6. To store. place the cooled and dried cookies in cookie boxes layered in between baking paper. Stored this way the should keep for 2 weeks (if you can resist not eating them in one sitting).

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