Almond London Cookies

Kuih almond london ni payah sikit nak buat.

Tapi, ni kegemaran saya setiap kali raya sama ada makan di rumah sendiri ataupun ketika beraya di rumah orang. Tak pernah lagi jumpa almond london yang tak sedap!

An all-time-favorite for all due to the mouth-watering chocolate coating and especially the nibble-size cupcake look. The biscuit is made up of 3 main parts – a whole toasted almond, covered in a crispy biscuit, and coated with chocolate.

Ingredients:

250 gm butter

125 gm castor sugar

1 egg

1 teaspoon vanilla essence

50 gm almond powder (optional)

300 gm plain flour

200 gm corn flour

2 tablespoon rice flour

1 teaspoon baking powder

Toasted whole almond (baked for 10 minutes)

Steps:

1. Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in the egg.
2. Add in vanilla essence and almond powder
3. Add flour and mix it well until soft and pliable.
4. Take 1 whole almond and wrap some dough covering it
5. Bake at 200°C for 20 minutes

Chocolate Topping:

600 g of cooking chocolate

1 tablespoon of vegetable shortening

Almond nibs (baked for 5 minutes)

1. Double-boil the cooking chocolate and once it completely melted turn off the flame 
2. Add vegetable shortening for shine (kept the bowl over the water bath until finish decorating the cookie as the chocolate will harden if left too long outside)
3. Arrange cookie on a small paper cup
4. Spoon over some melted chocolate over the cookie
5. Add some almond nibs and let the chocolate harden