These vegan Amaretti cookies -- chewy, crispy and soft as a cloud -- are my favorite Italian cookies to bake every Holiday season. They need just six pantry ingredients and the cookie batter takes all of five minutes to put together. If you've never eaten Amaretti cookies before you are in for a treat. And...
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These vegan Amaretti cookies -- chewy, crispy and soft as a cloud -- are my favorite Italian cookies to bake every Holiday season. They need just six pantry ingredients and the cookie batter takes all of five minutes to put together.

If you've never eaten Amaretti cookies before you are in for a treat. And if you have, you will adore these vegan Amaretti cookies, which are made without egg whites and need just a few simple pantry ingredients to achieve perfection.
I've been making vegan Amaretti cookies for years now and I've previously shared a couple of versions with you, including one that used a bit of all purpose flour, which I posted in 2009, and one that used aquafaba to replace the egg whites, in 2018.

I love both versions, but I wanted to take the all purpose flour out of the recipe to keep this cookie gluten-free, as amaretti cookies traditionally are. The other version, with aquafaba, was already gluten-free but the chickpea brine, for some reason, doesn't agree with Desi, and I've heard a similar complaint from a few readers as well.

So these Amaretti cookies I am sh...