Caramel Walnut Cookies
- Yield 50 pieces
- Prep 25 mins
- Cook 30 mins
Ingredients
- For the short pastry:
- 100 grams California walnuts
- 300 grams flour
- 50 grams cornstarch
- 120 grams sugar
- 1 -- sachet vanilla sugar
- 1 teaspoon clove powder
- 1 teaspoon cardamom
- 225 grams cold butter
- 1 -- egg
- 3-4 -- EL cold water
- Additionally
- 100 grams sugar
- 100 milliliters cream
- 2 tablespoons honey
- 2 tablespoons rum
- 50 grams California walnuts
Instructions
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1. Grind walnuts. Mix cornstarch, sugar, vanilla sugar, spices and walnuts with the flour in a bowl. Add butter in small pieces, egg and water. Knead everything with your hands to get a smooth dough. Wrap the dough in polythene foiland put it in the fridge for1 hour.
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2. Flour your hands and form the dough into cherry-sized balls (ca. 15 g). Put them onto baking trays which are covered with baking paper. Press the stem of a wooden spoon into the balls to give them a little hole. Bake at 180C (Gas: 2-3, recirculation air: 160C) for 18-20 min. Let cool down.
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3. Put sugar in a small pot and letcaramelize. Add cream, honey and rum and let thicken while stirring for ca. 6-8 min. Chop walnuts and roast them in a dry pan. Fill the holes in the cookies with a bit of caramel, put walnut pieces on top and drop rest of caramel onto them.
