Amaretti, the famous Italian almond cookies are so popular in their homeland that almost every region has their version of the recipe, using different proportions and combinations of the basic ingredients: sweet and bitter almonds, apricot kernels, eggs, and sugar.

The crispy variant of this cookie is world-famous, but the small town of Sassello in Liguria is renowned for its round-shaped, very soft and chewy amaretti, with an almost marzipan-like interior, due to a very high percentage of almonds in the dough.