Ossi di Morti (Bones of the Dead)

[Mike Nolan]

These almond cookies are traditionally served the day after Halloween, often shaped like bones. I find the dough holds its shape well, so I made Halloween cookies with it.

Two versions of the dough:

Original:

2 eggs
1 1/4 cups AP flour
1 1/2 cups sugar (plus a little sanding sugar on top)
1/8 teaspoon salt
5 ounces almond meal (or ground almonds)
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 1/2 teaspoon lemon juice
1/4 teaspoon almond extract

Keto-friendlier:

2 eggs
1 1/4 cups Carbalose (King Arthur Keto Wheat Baking Mix would work, too.)
1 1/2 cups Splenda
1/8 teaspoon salt
5 ounces almond meal
1 1/2 teaspoon lemon juice
1/4 teaspoon almond extract (or maybe just a little more)

(You may have to add a tablespoon or so of water to get it to form a dough, because the low-carb baking mixes soak up more water.)

Preheat oven to 280 degrees (low heat for a longer time makes the cookies harder--like bones.)

Line baking sheets with parchment or use a silpat.

Make dough, roll out to 1/8" thick, cut into shapes, place on baking sheet. Allow a little space in between cookies but they won't spread much.

I used some yellow colored sugar as the straw on the broom (in picture below) the others just got a light sprinkling of sparkling sugar. (It adds less than a carb to a 15 gram cookie, but the sugar on top gives them a better mouth feel.)

Bake for 15-25 minutes, until bottoms are browned but not too dark. If you let them rest in the cooling oven they will firm up more without getting overbaked on the bottom. I haven't tried making them with allulose yet, so I don't know how they would bake up, allulose-based baked goods tend to be softer and brown/burn easily.

The original dough will be heavier than the low-carb one (because Splenda is so much lighter in weight), so I can't give nutritional differences because I don't know what the weight per cookie would be for the original cookie. The low-carb ones in the picture ranged in weight from about 5 grams to 20 grams and Carb Manager computes them at about 110 calories, 10.8 carbs, 6.5 net carbs for 15 grams of dough.

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