Well the main ingredient in almond and pine nut cookies is pine nuts. However, if you love nuts but aren’t keen on pine nuts, you can make a variation of the recipe. Substitute slivered almonds for the pine nuts and you can still enjoy a nutty tasting cookie. They won’t be authentic pignoli but they will still be delicious! Another idea would be rolling the dough in chopped mixed nuts. If you do love pine nuts then by all means use those. Feel free to go ahead and add more to the recipe if you want. There is no such thing as ‘too many pine nuts’ so roll the dough in pine nuts until they’re completely covered, to make the very best and most traditional Italian pignoli! You can often find large bags of pine nuts at Costco for a great price.