Almond London Cookies

Total Time: 1 hr 10 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• 125 g unsalted butter
• 75 g icing sugar (sifted)
• 1 egg yolk
• 225 g plain flour (sifted)
• 150 g ground almonds
• 1 teaspoon almond essence
• 450 g dark chocolate

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 170°c.
• 2 using an electric whisk, cream butter and sugar till light ad fluffy.
• 3 beat egg yolk and almond essence into batter till light pale yellow.
• 4 add in sifted plain flour, fold well into a dough. (if too wet, may add in a bit more flour).
• 5 pinch marble-size dough and roll into balls. line balls of dough onto baking sheet on baking tray.
• 6 bake 170°c for 20mins-25mins. place baked cookies on tray to cool.
• 7 while cooling the cookies, line paper cups & melt dark chocolate in microwave. divide each sessions to 20secs so that you won't burn the chocolate. i did an approx 2-3 sessions to melt the dark chocolates.
• 8 using a teaspoon, drizzle some chocolate into base of each paper cases. next, place each paper cases with a cookie.
• 9 cover the cookies with more chocolate and sprinkle ground almonds on top.
• 10 let chocolate sit to harden or you may chill in refrigerator for 5mins.