Amaretti Thumbprints

Step 1

On clean and flat working surface, combine,using your hands, almonds, sugar, egg whites, honey, almond extract and flour.You'll get sticky dough. Leave aside.

Step 2

Preheat the oven to 170 C / 338 F.

Step 3

Cover two baking sheets with baking paper and leave aside.

Step 4

Put icing sugar into the shallow bowl.

Step 5

Cut the dough into 20 balls to be about the same size.

Step 6

Roll the balls into icing sugar and place on the baking paper ( 10 balls on each pan ).

Step 7

Dent each ball center using thumb.

Step 8

Bake each sheet pan for 12 minutes. Leave to cool.

Step 9

After baking is done, fill each thumbprint with ½ tsp of red currant jam.