Odense almond paste is a common brand found on grocery store shelves, and one Molly used in her testing. So making adjustments to any of them proved to be both crucial and noticeable. One unique element about this recipe was that there weren’t many ingredients to play with: primarily almond paste, sugar, almond flour, and egg whites. Molly tested this recipe for months, baking over 30 batches with various almond pastes, slight recipe tweaks, and rigorous comparisons. After all, writing a recipe isn’t just about creating a delicious baked good, but also being efficient for the baker! Putting Almond Cloud Cookies to the test Molly wanted to keep these amounts in mind to make things easy for home bakers. Love 'n Bake comes in a 10-ounce package, while Mandelin and some other brands are sold in 16-ounce sizes. *It may not seem obvious, but this was a practical consideration. While testing each of these almond paste options in Almond Cloud Cookies, Molly focused on these factors: Made with just almond flour, confectioners’ sugar, salt, and almond extract, it’s a simple and delicious recipe that can be prepared in a few minutes, making it easy to turn into cookies. It was highly likely bakers would turn to one of these options to make the recipe instead, so non-Love 'n Bake brands needed to work too.Īnd finally, a third option: DIY Almond Paste. The original recipe called for American Almond's Love 'n Bake almond paste it was formulated specifically for that product because we offered it in our online shop.īut other almond paste brands, like Odense and Mandelin, are commonly found on grocery shelves. Ultimately, there were three primary almond paste options that Molly focused on in her recipe testing. (She's not kidding they're a staple at our Bakery and Café.) “So we were very mindful about what we were changing in the recipe.”Īfter many months of work, here’s how she landed on the newest version of the recipe currently on our site. “I love this cookie, and people love this cookie,” shared Molly. The case of the cloud cookies fell to one test kitchen member in particular, Molly Marzalek-Kelly.
They fall to our peerless test kitchen, a group of talented bakers who make sure that each and every King Arthur recipe is foolproof. Those questions are too much for me, a lowly blog writer, to answer.
Cookies made with almond paste update#
And a little while later, we debuted a new recipe for DIY Almond Paste, yet another option with which to bake.Īll of these almond paste choices made us consider - how do these slight changes in ingredients affect our Almond Cloud Cookies?ĭo we need to update the recipe for different types of almond paste? How can we make sure this recipe is successful for every baker, regardless of which ingredients they choose? But then we realized different almond paste brands perform slightly differently in these cookies. Not to mention a striking appearance with their dusting of confectioners’ sugar.įor a long time, this cookie recipe called for store-bought almond paste specifically, a brand we carried in our online shop. These cookies are delightfully chewy, with a rich, robust almond flavor. They’re fluid and evolving, constantly being tweaked and updated to better perform in the kitchens of home bakers.Ĭase in point: our Almond Cloud Cookies. Our online recipes are, in many ways, alive.
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