Give mum a gift from the heart this Mother’s Day, with a homemade treat she’ll remember forever!
You may not be able to fly your mum to Italy for Mother’s Day, but you can bake her up a treat that’s the next best thing!
After you’ve treated mum to a day out in one of the Yarra Valley’s exceptional restraunts, cafes or hotels, serve up these traditional almond-flavoured Amaretti biscuits with a sweet desert or bowl of ice-cream and show mum just how much you love her … and she’ll love you for saying ‘ti amo Mamma’ – Italian for ‘I love you Mum’ in your own special way!
Amaretti ingredients:
125g ground almonds
1 cup sugar
2 egg whites
1/2 tsp vanilla
2 drops almond essence
20 blanched almonds
Method:
1. Combine ground almonds, sugar, egg whites, vanilla and almond essence in a mixing bowl.
2. Beat mixture with electric whisk on medium speed for about three minutes.
3. Let mixture rest for five minutes while you prepare baking trays with non-stick baking paper and pre-heat oven to 180C.
4. Spoon mixture into a piping bag with a 1cm plain tube.
5. Pipe mixture onto the baking paper in a circular motion to form a biscuit.
6. Place one blanched almond on top of each biscuit and bake for about 12-15 minutes or until tops are lightly brown.
7. Remove from the oven, leave to cool for a few minutes before placing on a wire rack for further cooling.
Makes 20 biscuits.
Recipe courtesy of the Australian Egg Corporation
