Orange Almond Cookies

Ingredients

• 2 sticks of softened butter
• 1 cup of sugar
• 2 egg whites
• 1 teaspoon pure almond extract
• 1/2 teaspoon of pure vanilla extract
• 1/2 cup almonds that have been ground
• 2 1/2 cups of flour
• 1 teaspoon no sodium baking powder
• juice of half orange

Instructions

Cream together:

Butter and sugar

Add remaining wet ingredients and ground almonds until the mixture is smooth like velvet.

Sift together flour and baking powder and add to the wet ingredients slowly only adding a little at time.

line a cookie sheet with parchment paper and drop onto the cookie by the teaspoons. Lightly dust your fingers with flour and flatten the drops of cookies. Bake at 350 degrees for 10-12 minutes no longer. The cookies will remain light in color but the bottoms should be golden. As they cool they will have a delicious crisp. It is optional if you want to sprinkle powdered sugar over them. I believe I came out with 3-4 dozens of small cookies but again it would depend on how big your droplets are. I personally used a teaspoon and it they out just the right size.