It was interesting that this came out on my mother's 90th birthday. I get a tin of these cookies every Christmas from her. I share them but keep part of the batch to savor one by one. She uses walnuts rather than almonds and has the nuts chopped into very small pieces. You get one bite of a piece of nut before the rest of the bite melts in your mouth. As I recall from last Christmas. Pick up a cookie, take a small bite, experience the sugar, experience the cookie, experience the nut, experience the melt in your mouth, swallow, lick the sugar off your lips, take another bite and repeat until the cookie is gone. Clean the powdered sugar from your fingers and hope you have another cookie left for later. What a great description... Makes me want to go bake some more right now! Thanks- PJH

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