Nut Cookies

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to make nut cookies? Measure out the necessary ingredients. Instead of 2 yolks, you can take one large egg. But with the yolks, the cookies will turn out more crumbly. Butter should be soft, so take it out of the refrigerator in advance.

2. Step 2:

   

   Chop walnuts in a convenient way. You can chop it with a knife or put it in a tight bag and chop it with a rolling pin. Choose the degree of grinding as desired. But it is better if the nut crumb is not too small, so that it feels good in the finished cookie.

3. Step 3:

   

   Pour out a couple of spoons of flour. Mix the rest of the flour with baking powder and sift through a sieve to enrich it with oxygen. Then the cookies will rise better during baking.

4. Step 4:

   

   Combine soft butter with sugar and vanilla sugar.

5. Step 5:

   

   Beat with a whisk or at a low speed of the mixer until a light mass is obtained.

6. Step 6:

   

   Add the yolks to the oil mixture.

7. Step 7:

   

   Whisk everything until smooth.

9. Step 8:

   

   Add the chopped walnuts, mix well.

10. Step 9:

    

    Pour the flour sifted with baking powder into the resulting mass, mix. If the dough turns out to be still sticky, add the previously postponed flour through a sieve. Flour may need less. It all depends on its properties, the size of the eggs.

11. Step 10:

    

    The dough should turn out soft, pliable, not elastic. It is not necessary to knead the shortbread dough for a long time, so that the butter does not melt much from the heat of the hands. Otherwise, the cookies will turn out to be coarser and less crumbly. Wrap the dough in plastic wrap and put it in the refrigerator for half an hour.

12. Step 11:

    

    Form cookies of the desired size from the cooled dough. Place the cookies on a parchment-lined baking sheet. At the same time, leave small distances between the cookies, since during baking it will increase in size.

13. Step 12:

    

    Bake the nut cookies in a preheated 190C oven for about 25 minutes. It is important not to over-dry the cookies so that they do not turn out to be hard. The cooking mode and time may be different, since each oven has its own peculiarities of operation. Therefore, focus on your technique.

14. Step 13:

    

    Cool the finished cookies and serve them to the table. Bon appetit!