Chinese Walnut Cookie Recipes

CHINESE WALNUT COOKIES

Steps:

• Dough: Mix the flour and the baking powder. Add the cubed butter, ground walnuts, icing sugar, egg, and salt. Mix.
• Refrigerate: Form a dough ball, wrap it in cling film/plastic wrap and refrigerate for about 30 minutes.
• In the meantime, preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius/ 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Line two or three baking trays with baking paper.
• Shape: Form balls about the size of a large walnut, press them lightly, and place them on the prepared baking trays. Leave some space between the cookies.
• Brush: Beat the egg yolk and milk together. Use the mixture to brush the cookies. Place a walnut half or quarter (depending on their size) on each cookie.
• Bake for about 13-14 minutes or until lightly browned. Leave to rest on the tray for a few minutes, transfer to wire racks to cool completely.
• Keep in airtight containers at room temperature.

CHINESE WALNUT COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 150 degrees F and lightly spray a cookie tray with oil.
• Sift almond meal, diced almonds, flour and icing sugar 3 times.
• SLowly add oil to mixture whilst mixing until dough sticks together and is very soft. You can do this in small amounts i.e by placing some of the dry mixture in a smaller bowl and adding the oil to that, so that if you add too much you haven't ruined the whole mixture.
• Using a teaspoon, form cookies into small walnut-sized balls. Using your thumb, indent the dough slightly and fill with diced walnuts. Close over the walnuts to create a filling. Reshape into a round ball and place on cookie tray.
• Bake for 20 minute Meanwhile, lightly beat the egg.
• After the cookies have baked for 20 min, brush the tops lightly with egg.
• Bake for another 10 min, and then brush the tops with egg again.
• Bake for 30 minute Cookies will keep for up to 2 weeks.