Chocolate Chip Dipped Almond Fingers Recipes

Steps:

• Cream 14 tablespoons butter and sugar.
• Add egg and beat well.
• Beat in almond and vanilla.
• Sift together flour, cinnamon, and salt.
• Add to creamed mixture.
• Blend in 6 ounces of chips.
• Chill till workable.
• Take a tablespoon of dough for each cookie shape into fingers (if needed use flour to help form cookies) and place on greased cookie sheet.
• Sprinkle with sugar.
• bake at 350 for 20 minutes.
• Cool on rack.
• Dip one side of cookie in chocolate.
• Place on waxed paper till set.

Steps:

• In a large bowl, cream butter and sugars until light and fluffy. Beat in egg and vanilla. Combine the flour, salt and baking soda; gradually add to the creamed mixture and mix well. Stir in chocolate chips and almonds. , Roll into 1-in. balls. Place 2 in. apart on greased baking sheets. Bake at 375° for 9-11 minutes or until edges are firm. Remove to wire racks to cool.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease cookie sheets.
• In a large bowl, cream together unsalted butter and sugar. Beat in the egg and egg yolk one at a time, then stir in the vanilla and almond extracts. Combine the flour, baking powder and salt; gradually stir into the sugar mixture until smoothly blended. Fill a large pastry bag fitted with a 3/4 inch round tip. A large freezer storage bag with one of the corners snipped off will also work.
• Pipe dough into 2 inch long logs using a side to side squiggle motion. Space cookies at least 2 inches apart. Place cookie sheets with cookies into the freezer for a couple of minutes to harden.
• Bake for 15 minutes in the preheated oven, or until cookies are lightly browned. Cool for a few minutes on the baking sheets, then remove to wire racks to cool completely.
• In the microwave or in a metal bowl over a pan of simmering water, melt chocolate and 2 tablespoons of butter, stirring frequently until smooth. Remove from heat and stir in the milk. Dip both ends of the cooled cookies into the chocolate and place them onto waxed paper to set.

Steps:

• Set a pot of water over medium heat and bring to a boil. Add a double boiler to the top of the pot and lower heat to a simmer.
• Add chocolate and coconut oil to the double boiler. Stir until chocolate is melted.
• Place a drip rack over a parchment-lined pan. Place almonds on top of the drip rack. Pour chocolate over the almonds. Allow chocolate to dry.
• Once dry, store almonds in a resealable container.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
• Spray 2 baking sheets with nonstick spray.
• Spread almonds on rimmed baking sheet.
• Place almond paste and sugar in processor and process until blended.
• Add egg whites, 1 at a time, blending well betwwen additions.
• Spoon dough into pastry bag fitted with plain 5/8-inch-wide tip. Pipe one 6-inch-long log of dough atop almonds on rimmed sheet.
• Gently roll dough in almonds, coating completely (dough is sticky).
• Transfer to prepared sheets, bending dough ends to create horseshoe shape with 1 1/2-inch-wide space between ends.
• Repeat with remaining dough, spacing cookies about 1 inch apart.
• Bake cookies until golden, about 18 minutes. Transfer to rack and cool.
• Line another baking sheet with foil. Stir chocolate in medium metal bowl set over saucepan of simmering water until melted and smooth.
• Dip ends of 1 cookie into chocolate, tilting pan if necessary. Shake cocokie gently to remove excess chocolate.
• Place cookie, rounded side up, on foil-lined sheet.
• Repeat with remaining cookies.
• Refrigerate cookies until chocolate sets, about 30 minutes.