Apricot and Nut Cookies with Amaretto Icing

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These would have been great, if I had not already made Giada's Dried Cherry and Almond Cookies with Vanilla Icing. This is basically the same recipe, just changes out the apricots for cherries and more almonds for pinenuts.
The cinnamon seemed better with the cherry and almonds and not the apricots.
So I made them again, this time I used all pinenuts and replaced the cinnamon with ginger and the vanilla with a little orange rind/extract. Did a simple vanilla icing. Much better! Apricot, ginger and orange is another great flavor combo - now I have two type of Giada's cookies!

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Just made these cookies for a party and they were a HIT!! Easy to made just took a little time. I left out the pine nuts and added more almonds. YUM

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OMG! The cookie is simple to make, and just one whiff of the Amaretto icing is enough to make one salivate! Great recipe that I always double as it makes so few cookies.

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This is my favorite cookie recipe. I have made for a couple of years now. Can make up in advance, rolled into roll, sealed in saran wrap and freeze. When I serve, guests always want recipe. Delicious.

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had most of the ingredients, all i had to but was the apricots. cheap and delicious even without the icing!!

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I had gone over all the reviews and felt this would be a good choice. It was. I had made the dough last night and let it set till this morning. My husband really enjoy with his coffee. I did use 1cup of apricots. I notice that some reviews said the log was hard to shape sticky and the cookies came out too thin; However I had none of these issues the log was firm and very easy to cut. The cookies kept their shape. This was very easy and tasty will make many more times.

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I just baked this recipe this evening...turned out wonderful!!! I did alter the recipe slightly...I added a little extra apricots and also omitted the pine nuts, using a little more of the toasted slivered almonds. I am debating on drizzling on any icing since I am not a huge fan of icing. These cookies were sliced thick which required about 5 more min. in my oven, but came out golden and delicious. You should try this awesome recipe!

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I just made these after seeing them on Giada's show. I doubled the recipe, but otherwise followed it exactly. The dough was VERY soft and sticky, and difficult to maneuver into a log. I think more flour is needed. And the cookies spread out quite a bit and turned out very thin-- not at all like the ones pictured. However, they taste great.

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I did like these cookies a lot. I am a huge pine nut fan and I did make the icing to go with them. My only qualm was that the shape and texture weren't what I was expecting. The directions say to roll them into a log and then cut slices. I may have cut the slices a little too thin, because my cookies came out kind of hard. Next time I will try cutting a little thicker slices and also rolling the log so that it is longer and more round shaped. (Mine ended up kind of funky shaped. Overall very good, reminded me of fruitcake kind of.

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I served these cookies with Giada's Gorgonzola Porcini Risotto. They provide a nice finish to a very rich risotto. The flavors in the cookies are subtle, but the amaretto icing gives them full effect. So don't skimp on the icing!