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They are quick, they are easy, they require few ingredients, they don’t need any beating, rolling, kneading, they help using up leftovers and, most of all, they are incredibly flavoursome! These hazelnut cookies are my second recipe – after chewy coconut cookies<\/a> –\u00a0for instant sweet snacks with leftover egg whites. They\u00a0are inspired by a recipe found in one of the famous\u00a0Two Fat Ladies<\/a>‘ autobiography. In fact,\u00a0Clarissa Dickson Wright, in her second and compelling autobiographical book entitled ” Rifling Through My Drawers<\/a>“, took an excellent decision to include a recipe after each chapter. The funny thing is her Walnut Biscuits recipe was a transformation of… hazelnut biscuits she appreciated less. Since I had only ground hazelnuts, I somewhat transformed it back.<\/p>\n The second time I was preparing the cookies I forgot to whip up the egg whites and discovered they are even better made this lazy way! The only downside is they don’t want to keep nice round shape, but if you put them in tartlets or muffin forms they’ll spread out neatly. (I don’t mind them looking a bit messy, but I know it can be important to some of you).\u00a0Hazelnuts can of course be substituted with walnuts, but the soft, moist dark brown cane sugar is obligatory (this is what makes them so chewy). Apart from the hazelnuts, I have modified a bit the ingredients’ amounts.<\/p>\n