A virtual Cookie Swap

Two hosters two cookies! For the Party, a joint event of SHF and IMMB, hosted by Jennifer (The Domestic Gooddess) and Alberto (Il Forno) I share two of my recipes.
I baked two sorts of cookies, a traditional christmas cookie and another one that I like very much. The last one can be enjoyed throughout the whole year;)

Haselnussmakronen *
4 egg whites
200g sugar
a little bit cinnamon
150g ground hazelnuts
200g grated hazelnuts
a pinch of salt
4 drops almond essence (I use vanilla essence)

Whisk egg whites with the mixer till they get foamy and thicken slightly.
Sprinkle sugar, aroma and cinnamon over and beat. Fold in the other ingredients. For each cookie drop two teaspoons of batter on to the baking sheet. Bake them in preheated oven at 120° for 20-25 minutes. It's important that you know that the cookies dry after cooling.

*This is the original recipe, I baked with the half of the given amounts.

The next one is very easy to bake but very delicious and fine.

Very Orange Cookies ( zarte Orangenplätzchen)
65 g softened butter
125g sugar
100ml orange juice
an orange zest
2 tablespoons orange liquer (instead of this I use one tablespoon orange blossom water)
50g grounded almonds
100g flour
50g sliced almonds

Beat the butter with sugar. Put orange juice, orange zest and orange blossom water in. Add grounded almonds and mix. Stir the flour and mix again. Take a little bit from the sliced almonds aside. The rest add to the batter and mix softly again. Drop one tablespoon of the batter little apart on to baking sheet. Using remaining almond, arrange sliced almonds on each cookie. Bake until cookies are lightly browned along edges, about 10-12 minutes(at about 150°). Let them cool for a while before removing from sheet with a spatula.

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And now here another cookie!

I'm hosting a delicious cookie of my sister Gülsen. She prepared almond balls. This one I didn't eat because, they were baked in Germany but I know the wonderful cardomom flavor of this cookies from former times. They are very yummy.

Almond balls (20-30 pieces)
1 egg white
150 g. sugar
200 g. almonds (grounded)
20 g. flour
zest of one orange
½ teaspoon cardomom
pistachios for decoration

Preheat oven to 180°C. Mix the egg white and sugar in a bowl. Put flour and the other ingredients. Form little balls and decorate it with a pistachio. Bake for 25 minutes at 180°C.
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