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Preheat oven to 350 F or 180 C.
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Grind the almonds into fine powder. I used an old fashioned nut grinder. You can use the regular grinder.
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Add in the sugar and baking powder to the almonds and mix.
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Now keep on adding the egg whites one by one and kneading the Almond mixture with the whites with gentle hands until a dough is formed.
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Once the dough is formed time to shape the rings. roll out the dough into sausage shape. Thickness should be about 1/4 inch.
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Fill in the kransekake pans to form the rings. There will be a total of 18 rings.
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Bake for 10 minutes in the oven and pull out and completely cool before take out of the molds.
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While the rings are cooling off you can prepare the icing.
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Instructions for the icing: Lightly beat 1 large egg white in a bowl. Now keep on adding icing sugar to the egg white little by little (1 tablespoon at a time) until you attain the desired consistency (It should be at a pouring consistency but not runny).
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Once the rings are completely cooled and the icing is ready its time to form the tower.
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starting from the larger ring to the smallest build up a tower.
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Place the largest ring on the plate and with the icing create a zigzag pattern on the ring and when the icing is still wet place the next size ring over it. The icing acts like a glue holding the rings together.
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Continue until you reach to the smallest ring.
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Decorate as desired with ribbons, toothpick flags with personal messages and flowers.
