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Toots (Soft Almond Flour Cookies)

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A metal serving tray of pink green and white sweet almond flour cookies with a hand reaching for one.
Photo by Farrah Skeiky

Toots are popular Nowruz cookies—the Iranian New Year has its own special cookies and confections that families prepare together around the holiday. I grew up rolling these precious, melty treats with Maman and Maman Bozorg each year. Toot means “mulberry” and the name refers to the shape of the cookies. They require no baking, which makes them almost feel like eating cookie dough.

This recipe was excerpted from 'Maman and Me' by Roya Shariat and Gita Sadeh. Buy the full book on Amazon.

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