We are pulling out this marmalade cookie recipe for our weekend of British food in honor of the Royal Wedding. Since we originally posted this it has become one of our favorites- you can substitute any sort of marmalade in place of the whisky flavored…I’ve since decided I quite love it with orange. Where are you watching the Royal Wedding?
Someone gave us this jar of Windsor Preserves Fine Cut Whisky Marmalade for Christmas. It is made in Yorkshire, England and to be honest I’ve been a little afraid to try it. I’m not a whisky drinker. It reminds me of cough medicine that my mother had to force down my throat as a child. The smell of it was not appealing to me – my husband on the other hand…he is a lover of both whisky and marmalade so he was happy to be the taster before we put it in the cookies.
Ingredients:
3 3/4 cups almond meal
1 cup of sugar
1/4 t baking powder
2 large egg whites
1 tablespoon of honey
1/2 cup Whisky Marmalade
A handful of lemon chips
Mix the dry ingredients, add the wet and then the chips and roll into 1″ balls. I cheated and used an ice cream scooper. Flatten the top of each ball with your thumb and add a few slivered almonds. Bake at 325 for 20-25 minutes on sprayed parchment paper. They are quite sticky so watch them in the oven to avoid burning.
The strong taste of the whisky marmalade lessened upon baking and the cookies were actually totally yummy. My four year old could not get enough of the bits that I broke when trying to get my cookies off the sheet (see note to use parchment paper…).
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