Strufoli or Italian Honey Balls turned G- Free

Ingredients:

4 cups almond flour                                         

1 cup sugar

1 teaspoon baking powder                      

 ½ teaspoon salt

½ cup sweet butter                                   

 3 eggs

1 egg yolk

 Colored non-pareils 

Honey glaze:

16 oz jar of honey and add 6 tablespoons lemon and heat

Corn oil for frying heat hot enough for frying.

Mix together flour, baking power and salt in large bowl; mix sugar and butter thoroughly ( I usually mix in a blender), add wet ingredients to dry ingredients and mix thoroughly until the dough becomes soft and pliable.  Wrap in wax paper and place in a bowl.  Refrigerate for at least 2 hours.

After 2 hours take out, break off small pieces and roll into ropes, cut into small nugget like shapes and place onto a tray so that they don’t stick together.  After all of the dough has been made into small nuggets  take a few at a time and fry to a golden brown, then place on paper toweling to drain.*** After all have been fried take a sauce pan and heat honey glaze. Place nuggets in glaze to cover place in dishes and sprinkle on non-pareils.

** Option 2: This probably makes me a bad Italian but I have never really liked these made the traditional way. At this point in the process I like to put the balls into powdered sugar and eat them