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Walnut short bread

Those little biscuits are with good walnut taste, because walnut are shortly roasted before powdered, it's very simple and efficient.

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Last modified on: December 5^th 2022

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For 40 biscuits, you will need:

1 125 g walnut kernels
2 125 g butter
3 125 g icing sugar
4 250 g flour
5 1 egg
Total weight: 675 grams

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Time required for this recipe:

Preparation	Resting	Cooking	Start to finish
26 min.	2 hours	35 min.	3 hours 1 min.

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 10 min.

Start by roast 125 g walnut kernels: put on a baking sheet and put in the oven at 300°F (150°C) for 10 minutes.

Walnut should dry without coloring.

Stage 2 - 3 min.

Let cool, then mix to get a powder.

Stage 3 - 3 min.

In a food processor bowl, pour 125 g butter and 125 g icing sugar, start at low speed and kneed until homogeneous mixture.

Stage 4 - 5 min.

Add 250 g flour, nuts powder and 1 egg, and continue to kneed until homogeneous mixture.

Stage 5 - 5 min.

Make a kind of ball with the dough.

Stage 6 - 2 hours

And put it between 2 plastic film sheets to make a kind of thick circle.

Put in the fridge for at least 2 hours or a night, otherwise 30 minutes in the freezer.

We do that because dough is very very soft at ambient temperature.

Stage 7 - 10 min.

Preheat your oven at 360°F (180°C).

Spread the dough, not too thin, on the working surface, and cut in circles...

Stage 8

...that you lay on a baking sheet.

Stage 9

You can also make square shapes using a roll.

Stage 10 - 25 min.

Put in the oven and make cook for about 25 minutes, watch for color because short bread should not be too cooked otherwise they are dry.

Let cool on a wire rack.

Remarks

You can make this recipe with almonds, hazelnut or other dry fruits of your choice

Keeping

A few days in a closed metal box.

Nutritional information

Whole recipe
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
3,199 Kcal or 13,394 Kj	48 gr	329 gr	188 gr
160 %	19 %	31 %	28 %

Per 100 g
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
474 Kcal or 1,985 Kj	7 gr	49 gr	28 gr
24 %	3 %	5 %	4 %

Per biscuits
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
80 Kcal or 335 Kj	1 gr	8 gr	5 gr
4 %	<1 %	1 %	1 %

% are calculated relative to a Recommended Dietary Intake or RDI of 2000 k-calories or 8400 k-joules by day for a woman (change to a man).

Possible allergens in this recipe: Nuts, Milk, Gluten, Egg

How much will it cost?

For 40 biscuits : 4.32 €
Per biscuits : 0.11 €

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Source

Home made.

This recipe uses (among others)

	Flour: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Arizona cupcakes, Fish in a sesame crust, Cashew-nut and Parmesan biscuits, Pretzels, Crunchy little pieces of fish, ... All
	Walnut kernels: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Baked Camembert with Walnuts, Granola, Oaty walnut cake , Cookies of the Camisards, Tomato and cream cheese terrine, ... All
	Butter: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Caramelised apple pie, Potimarron (Japanese chestnut pumpkin) purée, Pavlova, Sautéed Green Vegetables in pan, Oat shortbread biscuits, ... All
	Icing sugar: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Paris-Brest, Mirlitons, Moist Lemon Cake, Marzipan (almond paste), Coconut "croute à thé", ... All

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