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Norway: Mandelkaker (Almond Refrigerator Cookies)

Sometimes you just want cookies.

This Norwegian recipe might or might not have started out life as a refrigerator cooky, but it works perfectly as one. A substantial dose of ground almonds recalls the flavor of some of the lighter, flourless cookies of Scandinavia (often raised with hartshorn / ammonium bicarbonate), but these come out with a less crisp, more straightforwardly cooky-ish texture, similar to that of a sugar cookie. Vanilla is added to these for flavoring purposes, but you could substitute other flavor extracts if you liked, as the almonds aren't all that assertive a flavor in the mix. (Or add almond extract to make that flavor more assertive: just as you wish.)

Making the cookie dough in a mixer or food processor takes about ten or fifteen minutes: then you leave it in the fridge at least overnight. After that, it's cookies on demand, whenever you feel like it until you run out of dough. This recipe makes about 48 / four dozen.

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