Walnut Shortbread Cookies

Simple and quick, shortbread, with delicious filling! Cookies with walnuts according to this recipe are fragrant, crumbly, beautiful and very tasty! And you will be able to cook it the first time — it is only important to follow a few important tips.
cook time: 1h 20 min
Ruby Colston
Walnut Shortbread Cookies

Nutrition Facts (per serving)

445
Calories
28g
Fat
36g
Carbs
10g
Protein

Ingredients (6 portions)

Dough:

Salt 1 g
Wheat flour 320 g
Butter 50 g
Vanillin 1 g
Eggs 1 pc
Sour cream 80 g
Baking powder 1 tsp

Filling:

Sugar 3 tbsp
Butter 2 tbsp
Walnuts 200 g

Recipe instructions

Step 1

Step 1
How to bake delicious cookies with walnuts? Very simple! To begin, prepare the necessary ingredients according to the list. Start by preparing the filling. In addition to walnuts, you can use any other nuts you like. The butter should be at room temperature, so remove it from the refrigerator in advance.

Step 2

Step 2
Finely chop the nuts with a knife. You can speed up the process by lightly blending the nuts in a blender, or putting the nuts in a bag and crushing them with a rolling pin.

Step 3

Step 3
Add sugar to nuts and stir. Add soft butter.

Step 4

Step 4
And mix the mixture well again so that the oil spreads throughout all the nuts.

Step 5

Step 5
Now prepare the dough. Take premium flour and large eggs. Vanillin can be replaced with 1 tsp. vanilla extract or 1 tsp. vanilla sugar.

Step 6

Step 6
Add the sifted flour to the blender bowl, add the cold butter cut into cubes and beat until fine crumbs form. You can grind everything with your hands, but I have been using a blender to prepare shortcrust pastry for a long time — it’s fast, convenient and my hands are clean.

Step 7

Step 7
In a separate bowl, combine sour cream, egg, sugar, salt and vanillin. Stir with a whisk until the sugar crystals dissolve.

Step 8

Step 8
Pour the egg mixture into the flour crumbs.

Step 9

Step 9
Knead soft elastic dough. At first, the dough sticks strongly to your hands, but quickly enough it begins to lag behind both your hands and the walls of the bowl. Roll the dough into a ball.

Step 10

Step 10
Divide the dough into two equal parts.

Step 11

Step 11
Roll out each part on a table sprinkled with flour into an oval approximately 3-4 cm thick. When rolling, it is important to ensure that the dough does not stick to the table, and for this the table must be dusted with flour.

Step 12

Step 12
Spread the nut-sugar filling over each of the ovals, leaving 1-1.5 cm from the edges.

Step 13

Step 13
Roll each piece of dough tightly along the short edge.

Step 14

Step 14
Using a regular or shaped knife, cut each roll diagonally. You will get beautiful blanks with carved edges.

Step 15

Step 15
Place the blanks on a baking sheet lined with oiled parchment at a distance from each other, because during the baking process the cookies will increase in size by 1.5-2 times. Bake the nut cookies in an oven preheated to 180°C for about 10-15 minutes until light golden brown. Make sure that the bottom of the baked goods does not burn. Focus on your oven.

Step 16

Step 16
Cool the finished cookies slightly, sprinkle with powdered sugar if desired and serve. Bon appetit!

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