Hello Caitlin, thank you for your comment. Ground almonds are similar to almond flour. The flour has less oil and is finer. You can use whole almonds and put them into a food processor to ground them. It’s a difference . But yeah you can use almond flour as well. Happy 4th of Advent. 🙂

Is there a way to make these without the ground almonds? If not, are ground almonds the same as almond flour? Thanks for your help!

Hello Kim, thank you for your question. I usually use a standard baking tray . This would be in Europe: 17,75 inch (40cm) x 11,82 (30cm) and about 1,19 inch (3,5cm) deep. hope that helps. Happy baking.