238 almond cookie recipes

Cocoa bars with a buttery shortbread base and a fudgy cocoa-almond topping baked on top. Two-step build in one pan, sliced into 24 squares while warm.

These biscuits are called bones to chew because they are hard and pale. They are traditionally baked on All Soul's Day in Italy.

Panforte is the dense, chewy Sienese Christmas cake packed with toasted hazelnuts and almonds, dates, cherries, cocoa, and warm spices, bound by hot honey caramel. A traditional Italian holiday confection.

Amigdala praline is a Greek almond brittle made with blanched almonds caramelized in butter and sugar with a drop of lemon juice. Crush it over tarts and ice cream for a crunchy topping.

No-bake holiday almond treats with vanilla wafer crumbs, pumpkin puree, amaretto, cinnamon, and ground almonds. Rolled into balls and coated in toasted almonds.

Cucidati, the traditional Sicilian Christmas fig cookies, with a rich filling of figs, raisins, nuts, chocolate and rum wrapped in tender pastry, shaped into slashed horseshoes and dusted with sugar.

Biscotti Napoletani: traditional eggless Italian almond biscotti with whole and ground almonds, sweetened with corn syrup. Twice-baked Neapolitan cookies built for dunking in espresso or vin santo.

No-bake marshmallow candy balls with ground candied cherries and blanched almonds rolled in shredded coconut. A vintage Christmas-tin confection that's chewy, sweet, and oven-free.

Traditional Tuscan twice-baked nut cookies studded with whole almonds and hazelnuts. Crunchy, fragrant, and built for dunking in Vin Santo or espresso.

Almond macaroon brownies layer a rich chocolate brownie base with a cream cheese, coconut, and almond macaroon topping, finished with a chocolate drizzle. One pan, two indulgent textures.

Cindy Schweitzer of Muskego offered this cherry twist on melt-in-your-mouth finger cookies.

Flour-free hazelnut cookies made with ground hazelnuts, almonds, eggs, and sugar. Naturally gluten-free nut cookies with a delicate, macaroon-like texture baked low and slow.

Almond Brown Sugar Biscotti: classic twice-baked Italian cookies with anise, brown sugar warmth, and chopped almonds. Crisp, dunkable, makes 3 dozen and stores for a month.

Black Forest oatmeal cookies with white and semi-sweet chocolate chunks, maraschino cherries, toasted almonds, and almond extract. A bakery-style drop cookie.

Chewy Greek almond macaroons made with ground almonds, egg whites, and fragrant rosewater create gluten-free cookies dusted with powdered sugar.

No-bake Oriental chews made with toasted chow mein noodles and coconut mixed into melted chocolate and butterscotch chips with slivered almonds. Crunchy, chewy, and sweet, these set on wax paper in minutes.