Walnut short bread

A recipe from cooking-ez.com

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:

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

Step by step recipe

1	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.
2	Let cool, then mix to get a powder.
3	In a food processor bowl, pour 125 g butter and 125 g icing sugar, start at low speed and kneed until homogeneous mixture.
4	Add 250 g flour, nuts powder and 1 egg, and continue to kneed until homogeneous mixture.
5	Make a kind of ball with the dough.
6	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.
7	Preheat your oven at 360°F (180°C). Spread the dough, not too thin, on the working surface, and cut in circles...
8	...that you lay on a baking sheet.
9	You can also make square shapes using a roll.
10	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

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