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Walnut short bread

Name: Walnut short bread
Prep time: 2 h 26 min
Cook time: 35 min
Total time: 3 h 1 min
Yield: 40 biscuits
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 125 g walnut kernels; 125 g butter; 125 g icing sugar; 250 g flour; 1 egg

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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Duration

3 hours 1 min.

Difficulty

Easy

Last modified on: December 5^th 2022

Step by step recipe Ingredients Duration Nutritional facts Cost Comments

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

Times for this recipe

Preparation

30 min.

Resting

2 hours

Cooking

35 min.

All in all

3 hours 1 min.

Preparation 30 min.

Resting 2 hours

Cooking 35 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.

Source: Home made.

Nutritional information

	Proteins (gr)	Carbohydrates (gr)	Fats (gr)	Energy value (in k-calories)	Energy value (in k-joules)
Whole recipe	48 RDI=74 %	328 RDI=124 %	187 RDI=257 %	3,199 RDI=160 %	13,395 RDI: 160 %
Per 100 g	7 RDI=11 %	48 RDI=18 %	27 RDI=38 %	473 RDI=24 %	1,984 RDI: 24 %
Per biscuits	1 RDI=2 %	8 RDI=3 %	4 RDI=6 %	79 RDI=4 %	335 RDI: 4 %