Fit For a Royal Wedding....No More Waitie Katie Brunch!

Well Happy Friday everyone!! I was so excited to post today about the Royal Wedding, and I most definitely got up at 4:45 to watch all of the festivities!  I couldn't wait to see her dress (GORGEOUS!!!) the bridesmaids (PRECIOUS!!!) and the balcony wave (TWO KISSES!?! PRICELESS).  The whole thing was wonderful, and totally worth running on a few less hours of sleep!  In my new cookbook, Gwyneth Paltrow's My Father's Daughter, there is a delicious and very pretty "tea party" worthy recipe for Lalo's Cookies.  They are wheat and almond cookies filled with fruity jam and go perfectly with freshly brewed tea or coffee.  I hope you like them, I made them a few days ago to ensure I would have the perfect Royal Wedding Brunch on this glorious day (I know, I know, alitttttttle dramatic....)

A few ingredients.......For the almonds, if you have a foodprocessor its easy to pulse them until they are ground up, or you could chop slivered almonds on the cutting board!

 1C real maple syrup.....

 1 tsp cinnamon.......

 1tsp salt......

 1tsp vanilla (not in the original recipe)

 combine all ingredients with 4c Wheat Flour (recipe acutally calls for barley flour but I had wheat already) and 3 cups ground almonds......stir together....

 create about 1 1/2 TBS balls (recipe called for 1TBS sized) and lay on a greased cooksheet.  Gently press the middle of the dough to form a well for the jam....

 Pick your favorite jam, I used Bonne Maman Strawberry Preserves....

 And fill the well with the jam....

 Bake on 350 for about 20 minutes and Presto! "lalo's cookies" Thanks Gwyneth!! (shes lives in London so I'm sure she'd approve of what I ate them for....)

 Fit for a Royal Wedding (or at least fit for watching the Royal Wedding Watching from my room...)

Inspired by Lalo's Cookies...the way I made them....
4c Whole Wheat Flour
3c ground Almond Slivers
1tsp salt
1tsp vanilla
1tsp Cinnamon
1c Maple Syrup
Favorite Jam/Jelly/Preserves

Preheat Oven to 350.  Combine flour, almonds, salt, vanilla, cinnamon, and maple syrup in a large mixing bowl.  On a greased cooksheet, roll dough into 1 1/2TBS rounds.  Press center with thumb.  Fill in center with Jam. Bake for approx 20 minutes...makes about 40 cookies!