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    Date and walnut ricciarelli

    • Vegetarian
    • Gluten Free
    • Preparation time: 20 minutes, plus cooling
    • Cooking time: 20 minutes
    • Total time: 40 minutes, plus cooling

    Makes: 12 biscuits

    Ingredients

    50g walnut halves
    ½ orange, zest
    125g ground almonds
    125g caster sugar
    2 egg whites
    25g icing sugar, sifted, plus about 75g extra for dusting
    2 tsp orange blossom water
    ¼ tsp vanilla extract
    125g pitted medjool dates, finely chopped

    Method

    1. Preheat the oven to 170˚C, gas mark 3. Line 2 baking sheets with baking parchment. In a food processor, whizz the walnuts and orange zest to a fine crumb. Put in a mixing bowl and stir in the ground almonds and caster sugar. Put the egg whites and 25g icing sugar in another bowl and whisk to stiff peaks. Tip over the walnut and almond mixture, add the orange blossom water, vanilla extract and dates, then fold together until evenly combined.

    2. Put 50g icing sugar on a plate and drop heaped tablespoons of the mixture onto it. Roll in the sugar, then shape into balls in your hands. Arrange, well-spaced, on the baking sheets, and press down to discs about 1cm thick. Sift the remaining icing sugar generously over the top, so they look completely white. Bake for 15-17 minutes, until the surface cracks. Cool for 5 minutes, then carefully transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.

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    This recipe first appeared in the Harvest section of Waitrose Food, November 2016 issue. Download the Waitose Food app for the full issue

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