Almond Bread (Frugal Food Thursday)

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I made some yummy Mandelbrot for Passover - the English translation would be "almond bread." But it's really a cookie, not a bread. It's like a biscotti, in that you bake a loaf, slice it, then toast the slices. However, it is a lot heavier and more substantial than biscotti, which tends to be more light and can be soaked in your coffee. Mandelbrot definitely needs to be eaten separately.

Another term for mandelbrot is kamishbrot.  Until tonight, I always thought the term was knishbrot - like a potato knish you'd have as a side dish in a delicatessen.  I never understood how a knish was related to a cookie.   But a quick search made it clear - I've been mispronouncing the word all this time!

I got my recipe from Cooks.com.  I halved it because I don't have much matzah cake flour on hand and I don't want to buy another box when there are only three days left in the holiday!  I also took out the chocolate chips because I didn't want to buy kosher-for-Passover chocolate chips (most commercial kinds have corn syrup in them, which is not allowed.)  But if you have them, they would be good.

And here's a non-Passover mandelbrot recipe to make the rest of the year.

Passover Mandelbrot (Almond Bread)

1 stick butter, softened
1 cup sugar
3 eggs
1-1/4 cup matzah cake meal
3/8 cup potato starch
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 cup chopped almonds
2 tsp sugar
1 tsp cinnamon

Preheat oven to 350. In a large bowl, cream the butter and the sugar with an electric mixer. Add the eggs and mix until well blended. Add the cake meal, potato starch, and salt. Mix on low until well combined. Fold in the chopped almonds.

Pour mixture onto a greased cookie sheet. Form into a low, flat loaf, about 4 inches wide. Sprinkle the top of the loaf with cinnamon and sugar. Bake at 350 for 35-40 minutes.

Place loaf on a wire rack and allow loaf to completely cool. Cut into 1" slices. Place cut side down on a cookie sheet. Broil for 2-3 minutes or until tops of the slices start to brown. Remove from the broiler, turn slices over, and broil for another 2 minutes. Allow to cool on a wire rack.

Makes 8-10 mandelbrot slices.

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