Baked cats’ paws
Christmas time is the time of baking and cookies. -A good time for publishing my grandma’s receipe for “Katzenpfoten” (literally “cats’ paws”). I don’t know where the receipe originates from, but some long web research for the receipe has not resulted in any useful results. So I believe the receipe will be new for most of you! You need
375 g almonds or hazelnuts (I prefer hazelnuts)
325 g sugar
4 eggs
1 tea spoon ground cloves
1/2 tea spoon ground cinnamon
1 pinch of ammonium carbonate (”Hirschhornsalz” in German)
enough flour to make a dough which you can form into a roll.
Mix everything and make a thick dough. Make a roll out of it and cut it into 2 cm thick slices. The bake on a baking tray with baking paper.
Be warned: The Katzenpfoten are extremely crunchy and not suitable for bad teeth! 
The result should look somewhat like this:
