An Amaretti cookie is a cookie with attitude. It is an elegant bite of crunchy, chewy wonderfulness. A cookie heady with the perfume of almonds, perfect with exactly the right amount of sweetness.
Amaretti cookies are definitely not your common, home-baked cookie one encounters in North America. This Italian confection dates as far back as the seventeen hundreds (1700’s), and is ancestor of the ubiquitous French macaron. It is a cookie equally at ease with a cup of coffee or tea or a glass of sparkling Prosecco.
Amaretti cookies have the same almond base and deliciously chewy texture of a French macaron, but unlike the macaron it is a snap to make. One simply whips up eggg whites, fold in sugar and ground almonds and rolls the morsels in sugar. There’s very much a Christmas feel about amarette cookies. They are so decadently, deliciously different.
Don’t wait for Christmas to make these cookies. They are a marriage made in heaven when you serve them with homemade ice cream and salted caramel sauce. My favorite bakery in Toronto, Bobbette & Bellle introduced me to these glorious cookies.
The printed recipe awaits you in MRS.BUTTERFINGERS kitchen.
Bel' Occhio 
I’m going to have to try these, Virginia, and besides being tasty, they look so elegant.
Happy weekend!
janet
Janet, dear friend, You are right. These are an elegant, sophisticated cookie. They definitely impress any one fortunate enough to be served these cookies with tea and even better still as a gift. We have had a wet week-end here on the West Coast. They called it an atmospheric river . Cheers Virginia