Amaretti di Sassello

Amaretti, the famous Italian almond cookies are so popular in their homeland that almost every region has their version of the recipe, using different proportions and combinations of the basic ingredients: sweet and bitter almonds, apricot kernels, eggs, and sugar. The crispy variant of this cookie is world-famous, but the small town of Sassello in Liguria is renowned for its round-shaped, very soft and chewy amaretti, with an almost marzipan-like interior, due to a very high percentage of almonds in the dough.