Cakes, Cookies, Brownies Recipe and Desserts

Ingredients:

275g (10 oz) flour
6 x 15ml ground almonds
2 x 5ml ground cinnamon
115g (40z) sugar
225g butter
egg yolk, to glaze
flaked almonds
icing sugar and drinking chocolate, for dredging

Directions:

1. Sift the flour into a bowl. Add the almonds. cinnamon and sugar and mix together. Work in the butter with your fingertips.

2. Roll out on a surface dusted with icing sugar until about 1cm (1/2 in) thick. Cut out heart or flower shapes with small pastry cutters. Brush with egg yolk and springkle with a few almonds, then place on lightly greased baking sheets.

3. Bake at 160C / 325F for about 40 minutes until firm and pale golden. Cool on a wire rack. Dredge a few biscuits with sifted icing sugar and a few drinking chocolate powder.