Ground chestnuts and rice flour make these delicate, melt-in-your mouth cookies gluten-free.
By Zerrin Gunaydin
Chestnut Cinnamon Cookies
- Total Time: 50 mins
- Yield: 38 1x
Description
Ground chestnuts and rice flour make these delicate, melt-in-your mouth cookies gluten-free.
Ingredients
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- 500g chestnut, ¾ cup when roasted, peeled and ground
- 1 cup rice flour
- 150g butter, at room temperature
- 1 egg yolk
- ½ tsp vanilla powder
- ½ tsp baking powder
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 4 tbsp corn starch
- 1 tbsp cinnamon, for topping
Instructions
- Preheat oven at 200C.
- Cut a small X on each chestnut, wait them in cold water for 30 minutes and roast them for 20 minutes.
- Cool on a tray and peel. Put them into a food processor and grind well. Transfer into a large bowl.
- Add in all the other ingredients except cinnamon and mix with your hands until it doesn’t stick to your hand.
- Preheat oven at 170C.
- Line baking pans with parchment paper.
- Make balls from the batter as big as a teaspoon and place them on the parchment paper leaving ½ inch between each.
- Bake them for 17 minutes and cool them on a rack.
- Sift cinnamon powder on them when cold.
- Store these cookies in an airtight container for a week.
- Prep Time: 30 mins
- Cook Time: 20 mins
- Category: Dessert
Can I use vacuum packed chestnuts in this recipe?