Passover Mandlebread

Tags: dessert - holiday - Jewish - Passover - vegetarian - family
Active Time: 15 minutes
Passive Time: 35 minutes
Serves: 20

Kosher for Passover version of the original

• Sugar: 2.5 cups, divided
• Butter: 1/2 lb, softened
  
  
• Eggs: 6
• Cake meal: 2.75 cups
• Salt: 1/2 tsp
• Potato starch: 3/4 cup
  
  
• Chocolate chips: 1 11.5 oz bag semisweet or milk
• Walnuts: 1 cup, chopped
  
  
• Cinnamon: 3 tbsp

• I tried making this once in Colorado and it was a huge failure. I had substitute cornstarch for potato starch, so I'm not sure if that was the issue or the altitude

1. Preheat oven to 350F
2. Cream sugar (2 cups) and butter. Add eggs and beat until light brown
3. Sift together cake meal, salt, and potato starch. Add to bowl with butter. Add chocolate chips and walnuts and mix well
4. Grease 2 cookie sheets and make two loaves on each cookie sheet
5. Mix together cinnamon and sugar (1/2 cup), and sprinkle generously on each loaf
6. Bake for 35 minutes. Slice while warm. Will freeze for several months