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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.

116,5274.1/5 for 40 ratings

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Last modified on: October 2^nd 2011

For 40 biscuits, you will need:

0 125 g walnut kernels
1 125 g butter
2 125 g icing sugar
3 250 g flour
4 1 egg
Total weight: 675 grams

Change these quantities to make: 20 biscuits 40 biscuits 80 biscuits 120 biscuits

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How long does it take?

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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Keeping:

A few days in a closed metal box.

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 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

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).

How much will it cost?

For 40 biscuits : 4.32 €
Per biscuits : 0.11 €

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Note : These prices are only approximate.

Source

Home made.

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This recipe uses (among others)

	Flour: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Oat shortbread biscuits, Coconut sweetcrust pastry, Sausage mushroom and cheese crumble, Little chocolate and hazelnut fondants, Strawberry and rhubarb crumble, ... All
	Walnut kernels: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Raw beetroot mousse with walnuts, Caramelized apple and walnut cake, Pears and caramelised walnut samosas , Special Cheese and Walnut Sticks, Endive and walnut salad, ... All
	Butter: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Lime confectioner's custard (pastry cream), Provençal colombier for Pentecost, Eggs en Cocotte à la Française, Sausage mushroom and cheese crumble, Celeriac and mushroom gratin, ... All
	Icing sugar: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Jam doughnuts, Half-cooked chocolate cake with raspberry coulis, Pistachio "Financiers", Mini lemon millefeuilles, Pink Reims biscuits, ... All

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