Those very same cherished nut molds, which are made for baking cookies shaped like real walnuts (most often), fall into several different categories.
The five most commonly used ingredients in nut-shaped cookie recipes:
| Product | Calories per 100g | Protein g per 100g | Fats g per 100g | Carbohydrates g per 100g |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sugar | 398 | 0 | 0 | 99.7 |
| Butter | 734 | 0.5 | 82.5 | 0.8 |
| Baking soda | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Flour | 325 | 12 | 1 | 67 |
| Boiled condensed milk | 328 | 7.2 | 8.5 | 55.5 |
The first, oldest, but still popular kind is a heavy metal mold that looks like a frying pan with two halves, meant for cooking on the stove — gas or electric, it makes no difference. In 90% of cases you will find one in the kitchen of almost any household, most likely kept from a grandmother or mother.
The second, more modern kind is electric. There are plenty of variations here — shape, size and power can all differ.
The third, meant perhaps for more experienced confectioners, is silicone.
On top of that, all three kinds of nut mold have so-called "subspecies." In some you can bake cookies as nut halves, and in others as whole nuts. The first are made with fillings, the second without. That is, in some we bake nut halves, which we then put together, "gluing" them with a cream based on boiled condensed milk (as a rule). And others are baked whole in the shape of little balls. Those are better suited to a softer, more delicate sponge dough.
There are a great many recipes for nut-shaped cookies, and they can differ quite a lot from one another. But almost all involve kneading shortcrust dough with butter or margarine. As already mentioned, boiled condensed milk is mainly used as the filling. But you can take any preserves, jam, confiture or thick cream. In that case the cookie halves can be glued together with sugar syrup.
You can put pieces of fruit, nuts, candied fruit and candy inside.
The five fastest nut-shaped cookie recipes:
| Name of the dish | Cooking time | Calories per 100g | User Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anniversary cookies | 30 min | 395 | +154 |
| Nut cookies in molds on a gas stove | 40 min | 402 | +204 |
| Nut cookies with almonds | 1 hour | 454 | +31 |
| Nut cookies in a Soviet-era mold | 1 hour | 401 | +103 |
| Round nut cookies with condensed milk | 1 hour | 376 | +21 |
There is also a way of serving in which the halves are filled with a pretty filling and arranged on a dish without gluing. The cookies then look less like actual nuts, but the room for creativity is wider.