Almond Paste Pastries

The almond paste pastries are typical Sicilian sweets made with almond paste, sugar and egg whites, a very simple recipe that gives life to delicious almond cakes! The peculiarity of these almond pastries, in addition to the intense aroma and flavor of almonds, is the fact that they are slightly crunchy on the outside and soft and moist inside. Almond paste pastries are widespread in Sicily and can be decorated in various ways, with an almond, with pine nuts, with pistachios, with icing sugar, with candied cherries and so on, look at Sicilian almond pastries.