Virtual Global Living: Recipe: Almond Cookies with Pine Nuts

I thought to try my hand at baking these cookies...I had plenty of almond flour left in the cupboard and thought I should try something new. So here it goes:

3 1/4 cups Flour
1 1/2 Tablespoons Baking Powder
1 1/2 teaspoons Salt
2 sticks plus 2 Tablespoons of Butter - soft/room temp
2 cups Sugar
3 egg yolks
2 eggs
1/2 teaspoon Lemon Extract
1/2 teaspoon Almond Extract
1 cup Almond Flour
1 1/2 cups Pine Nuts (or 3/4 cup sliced almonds)

Parchment Paper
Cookie baking sheet
Small round "biscuit" cutter
Rolling Pin and extra flour for dusting

In a medium bowl blend Flour, Baking Powder and Salt (set aside)
In the mixer bowl add the butter and sugar and beat medium speed until it is fluffy (2-3 minutes)
Reduce mixer speed to low.
Add all the eggs, then the lemon and almond extracts.
Beat low speed until well blended.
Slowly add the flour (maybe one cup at a time)
Slowly add the almond flour
Blend well, low speed.
It is a very creamy, gooey dough...

Place a long plastic wrap on the work surface/counter and pour/scrape all the dough onto the center of the plastic wrap.
Let it spread out naturally and wrap it in the plastic wrap. Carefully slide the dough onto a tray and refrigerate 4 hours or overnight.

After the dough has chilled, get ready to bake!
In a non-stick frying pan, lightly brown the pine nuts. (If you are using sliced almonds, skip this step!)
Set the lightly browned pine nuts aside to cool.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees
Line cookie sheet with a piece of parchment paper
Cut a long piece of parchment paper for your work surface/counter. Dust with flour.
Remove the plastic wrap and place the dough on the paper and gently begin to roll out.
I cut my dough in half and place the other in the 'fridge (re-wrapped) until ready to use. Otherwise it gets too soft to work with.
Roll dough to about 1/4" thickness and begin cutting out round circles. (My cutter is about 2" in diameter.)
The cutter works best with cold, firm dough.
Assemble your cookies onto the baking sheet.
You may end up with little bits and pieces of dough, it will be very soft - so take a small handful of dough pieces, roll it into a ball, place on baking tray and press down to form a cookie and top with nuts.
Place a few toasted pine nuts (or sliced almonds) on top of each cookie
Place in oven - middle rack - and bake 15-20 minutes - just until the edges start to brown.
If your cookies are thicker, you'll need 20 min, it you make small cookies, 15 min may be just right.

Repeat the same procedure with the remaining cookie dough in the 'fridge.
The recipe makes about 48 cookies!