Ingredients

• 300 g flour
• 100 g honey
• 1 dl delicate & flavoured olive oil (Nyons PDO, Nice PDO / Grossane, Négrette, Verdale de l’Hérault or Lucques varieties)
• 1 egg
• 20 g baking powder
• 5 g cinnamon
• 100 g almonds
• 1 pinch of salt
  

Preparation

- Preheat oven to 180°C.

- Beat egg with salt and honey, alternatively add oil and flour mixed with cinnamon and baking powder.

- Form a ball, cover it with a napkin and let it rest for 1/2h.

- Roll the mixture out, cut up into biscuits with a star cookie cutter, decorate stars with almonds cut in half, place onto floured ungreased baking sheets. Bake for 20 minutes.

Extract of «Pâtisserie fine à l'huile d'olive» from M. G. Fogli, COI (Madrid)