Walnut Sugar Cookies

Recipe:

Ingredient Notes:

• Nuts. These cookies are made with walnuts, but you can substitute pecans, almonds, cashews, or pistachios if you prefer.
• Flour. These cookies require not strong flour. Regular all-purpose flour with about 10% protein will do. Better yet, use cake flour with 8-9% protein. A stronger bread flour will make the dough stiffer.
• Butter. In this case, it is better to use butter with a fat content of 80% or more. It will make the cookies crispier than butter with a lower fat content.
• Sugar. Both for the dough and for rolling, you can use white or brown sugar of your choice.
  The main difference is that brown sugar gives the cookies a beige color and a slight caramel flavor.
• Vanilla sugar. You can use vanilla sugar or vanilla extract (1 teaspoon) for flavoring. If you don’t use vanilla sugar, increase the amount of regular sugar by 1 teaspoon.

Let’s start cooking.

Chop nuts but not too fine.

Cream the room temperature butter with the regular and vanilla sugar.

Add flour and mix. The dough may crumble slightly – this is normal.

Stir the nuts into the dough. Be careful not to overmix.

Divide the dough into 12 pieces, form each piece into a ball and roll in sugar.

Place the balls on a baking sheet and flatten slightly.

Place the cookies in a preheated oven at 180°C (355°F) and bake until the edges of the cookies are golden brown, about 15 minutes.

Serve warm or chilled.

Enjoy your tea party!

This Walnut Sugar Cookies recipe was checked, prepared and approved by Chef Tatyana Nazaruk - author of FlavorIt.com.
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