These vegan mastic cookies are made of crumbly almond sablé. This type of pastry has more biscuit texture than shortbread. The almond and vegan butter already give rich taste but this time I spiced up with some mastic and cardamom. It’s the perfect companion with your afternoon tea.
The traditional French almond paté sablé is made with butter but that’s easy to replace with margarin or vegan butter. Instead of egg I used an overly ripe banana for moisture but it works with the same amount of aquafaba too. The relatively large quantity of baking powder makes the pastry light in texture. The Greek mastic raisin and cardamom gives a nice Anatolian, Middle Eastern twist to the cookies.
If you make the recipe let me know how did you like it 🙂
You can keep the dough in the fridge for few days if you make bigger batch.
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