Panellets

Panellets are special cookies we eat in Catalonia on the 31st of October. We celebrate Halloween drinking sweet wine and eating these cookies along with sweet potatoes and roasted chestnuts

Panellets

Ingredients:

2 1/4 pounds of raw almonds ( 1 Kg )

2 1/4 pounds of sugar

1 box of instant mashed potatoes (dry)

1 egg

pine nuts

Mash the almonds. Put in a big bowl the mashed almonds, make a hole in the center and add the sugar in the hole. Prepare the mashed potatoes following the indications on the box. Pour it (very hot to mix easily ) on top of the sugar and mix everything together until you get a compact paste. Let it rest until the paste is cold. Form the paste into little balls (about 1 inch diameter), soak them with beaten egg, roll them in the pine nuts until covered. Bake at 375 F, 8-10 minutes. You can change the flavors, adding to the paste shredded coconut, instant coffee, cocoa...