=Anti-Terrorist Almond Cookies=

They hate us because of our cookies!

The government can now arrest, interrogate & imprison us without formal charges, listen in on our private communications without a warrant, shoot x-rays through our bodies and frisk our private parts whenever we pass through an airport, even assassinate us under secret orders of the president…but goddammit we're still free to make cookies in our own kitchens! Is this the greatest country in the world or what? No wonder the terrorists hate us!

These patriotic almond cookies—super-easy to make and with an intense almond flavor—will show Them! Whoever the latest "Them" are. 

First thing you do is preheat your oven to a desert-scorching 375 degrees. Then line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.

Take two separate bowls.

In one, mix 1.5 cups of almond flour. Im using almond flour because these are almond cookies so it ups the almond quotient, but also because my husband is on a no-to-low carb diet and white flour is to be avoided whenever possible. Here it's possible. So it's 1.5 cups of almond flour and two teaspoons of baking powder. Sift these together.

In bowl #2 you mix half a cup of Truvia brown baking sugar (or one cup of regular sugar), two teaspoons of almond extract, 1 beaten egg, and a .25 cups of coconut oil. I'm using coconut oil because its healthier than vegetable oil but you can use vegetable oil if you like—it's your health, after all, and this is still a psuedo-free* country. We won't let the terrorists win!

Stir the contents of bowl #2 slowly & thoroughly into the contents of bowl #1 until a thick pasty batter develops. This thick batter will result in a chewier, softer cookie, rather than a hard, crisp one. I should have mentioned this earlier, I know, but I was too busy trying to be clever and make a political point. I hope its not already too late to mention it now. Anyway, we proceed. With a spoon or similar implement of peaceful intent, plop a ball of batter onto your parchment paper and flatten. In the above picture, I pressed some chopped pecans into each cookie mainly because I didn't have any sliced almonds, which would have made more sense, these being almond cookies. But you really don't have to use any nuts at all. Slide the cookie sheet into the oven and set the timer. Cookies should be ready anywhere from between 10-12 minutes, depending on whenever you get the knock on the door from the FBI.

Offer them a cookie. 

If it's a guy in a turban and beard with a wild look in his eye, offer him one, too. Everyone likes a cookie.

*Terms & restrictions apply. Ask your Homeland Security or FBI interrogator for details.