Almond Recipes

Vasilopita, a traditional Greek New Year's cake with a lucky coin baked inside, topped with slivered almonds and sesame seeds. Rich butter cake with whipped egg whites.

Spiced refrigerator cookies with sour cream, sliced almonds, cloves, and nutmeg. Make-ahead dough keeps for 2 weeks refrigerated or freezes for months.

These buttery and nutty honey cookies are absolutely the best. Toasted almonds really give the cookies yummy nuttiness and flakey texture. Honey adds the sweetness and more depth to the taste. These delicious treats will win compliments from everyone who tastes it.

This Swiss monastery tart has a cocoa-almond-cinnamon shortcrust filled with raspberry jam and topped with a golden lattice. A rustic European bake with roots in St. Gallen's monastic kitchens.

Fruitcake drop cookies with brandy, candied cherries, dates, candied pineapple, and nuts. All the holiday fruitcake flavor in a bite-sized cookie that bakes in 12 minutes.

Giant oven-puffed pancake (Dutch baby) with lemon, vanilla, and butter, topped with black cherries, sliced almonds, and powdered sugar. A dramatic 30-minute brunch.

Mango mousse cake with a sponge cake base, fresh mango puree mousse set with gelatin, toasted almonds, raspberry jam, and whipped cream. An impressive layered French-style dessert.

Ground almonds and cinnamon fold into stiff meringue to create these chewy Italian amaretti cookies where lemon zest and vanilla cut through the sweetness with bright, aromatic notes.

This barely sweet, fruity rye tastes good with scrambled eggs or in a turkey sandwich. For tea sandwiches, slice thin and spread with cream cheese and toasted sliced almonds.

Cherry Cheesecake Tarts with Buttery Almond Pastry recipe

Vegan wild rice crepes stuffed with a savory trio of shiitake, oyster, and button mushrooms, finished with a silky nutty almond sauce. Elegant plant-based entertaining at its finest.

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

Cardamom wedding cookies: buttery shortbread balls rolled in powdered sugar with cardamom, citrus zest, and ground almonds. A fragrant twist on traditional Mexican wedding cookies.

Apricot almond buns rolled with chopped dried apricots, slivered almonds, and brown sugar, then sliced and fanned for a bakery-style sweet bread. A yeasted breakfast pastry that makes 14 fanned buns.

Chewy oatmeal cookies loaded with white chocolate, semi-sweet chocolate, candied cherries, and toasted almonds. A bakery-style drop cookie with almond extract for extra depth.

Grape tartlets with almond crust, fresh seedless grape halves in shortcrust tartlet shells, glazed with apricot-sherry jam and toasted almonds. An elegant French patisserie-style dessert.