That's right, I'm talking about almond paste cookies.
My husband had never tasted almond pastes until he met me. (He's not Italian. But nobody's perfect.) I think they're now his favorite Christmas cookie.
The number of ways to make almond paste cookies is great and varied, but I'm going to share an extremely simple recipe passed down from my Nana Savona. It's so simple, in fact, that when I first got the recipe from my great aunt, we thought she'd forgotten to write down some of the ingredients. But then we were perusing my nana's recipe box at my grandmother's one day and discovered her original recipe card. And after some trial and error in preparation and storage, we discovered the secret to making these almond paste cookies the way my mom remembers from her childhood.
