How To Make Easy Lace Cookies
Thin and crispy lace cookies are made sweet and savory with butter. Stack these cookies together with a rich spread of Nutella for a chocolate flavor.
Serves:
Ingredients
- ½cupunsalted butter,(115g; 1 stick)
- ⅔cuppacked light,(130g) or dark brown sugar
- ¾cupalmond flour,(75g)
- ¼tspsalt
- 1tbsplight or dark corn syrup or milk,(15ml)
- 1tsppure vanilla extract
- ½cupNutella,or melted chocolate, optional
Instructions
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Melt butter in a medium saucepan on medium heat. Once melted, add the brown sugar, almond flour, salt, and milk/corn syrup. Cook and whisk until sugar has dissolved and ingredients are completely combined for around 3 minutes.*
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Remove from heat and whisk in vanilla extract. The mixture will be grainy and shiny.
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Allow the cookie dough to sit and thicken for about 5 to 10 minutes as the oven preheats. The mixture will thicken as it cools down.
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line 2 to 3 large baking sheets with parchment paper or silicone baking mats.
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Drop scant teaspoonfuls of mixture 3 inches apart onto prepared baking sheets.
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Bake for 6 to 8 minutes until golden brown around the edges. The edges and centers will sizzle and bubble as the cookies bake!
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Allow cookies to cool for 5 full minutes on the baking sheets before transferring to a rack to cool completely. Cookies dry and crisp up as they cool.
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Once cool, enjoy cookies or sandwiches with Nutella or melted chocolate.
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Spread either Nutella or melted chocolate onto the bottom of one cooled cookie and sandwich with another.
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Cookies without Nutella/chocolate filling will stay fresh covered at room temperature for 1 week.
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Cookies with Nutella/chocolate will stay fresh covered at room temperature for 3 days or in the refrigerator for 1 week.
Recipe Notes
*If melted butter is separating from the mixture, remove the pan from heat and vigorously whisk until it is all combined again. It will eventually come back together.
Nutrition
- Calories: 67.98kcal
- Fat: 5.56g
- Saturated Fat: 3.23g
- Trans Fat: 0.12g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 0.75g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.11g
- Carbohydrates: 3.88g
- Fiber: 0.52g
- Sugar: 3.09g
- Protein: 0.87g
- Cholesterol: 7.63mg
- Sodium: 21.48mg
- Calcium: 7.82mg
- Potassium: 39.27mg
- Iron: 0.23mg
- Vitamin A: 24.31µg
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