No-flour Hazelnut, Chocolate And Cinnamon Cookies

Total Time: 27 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 12 mins

Ingredients

• 4 1/2 ounces hazelnuts, ground (130 g)
• 5 ounces confectioners' sugar (150 g icing sugar)
• 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
• 2 ounces cocoa powder, plus extra to dust (50 ml)
• 4 egg whites, largest size
• 4 tablespoons superfine sugar (castor sugar, or use sugar substitute)
• 3 1/2 ounces chocolate chips, preferably the dark kind (100 g)

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 325 deg f/160 deg c, and line a baking tray with nonstick paper.
• 2 mix the ground hazelnuts (weighed after being ground), confectioner's sugar, cinnamon and cocoa powder in a bowl.
• 3 whisk the egg whites and superfine (castor) sugar together until stiff peaks form.
• 4 fold in the hazelnut mixture and dark choc chips.
• 5 spoon tablespoons of the mixture on the tray, but leave about 2 inches between each spoonful to allow for spreading.
• 6 bake for 10 - 12 minutes. lift out on to a cake rack. dust with cocoa powder.