Shortbread nut cookies. Cookies with walnuts and icing

Everyone has long known that a delicious smell home baking creates its own special atmosphere. It is impossible to imagine a cozy home without the constantly hovering aroma of freshly brewed tea and baked cookies. That is why any housewife has in her stock amazing recipes for this delicacy. Especially loved by many recipe, which also has nuts in its composition.

Any nut cookies are distinguished not only by a variety of interchangeable nuts, but also by simplicity and ease of preparation. In this article, you will learn how to prepare such a dessert without spending a lot of time and at the same time pamper delicious pastries the whole family.

Quick Recipe

When the hostess really wants to make walnut cookies, but she is not yet ready for too large-scale experiments, this quick recipe will be a real life saver for her. This recipe is incredibly simple and at the same time will allow you to put pastries on the table in a very short time.

Steps for making cookies with nuts:

  1. Rub the butter and sugar together in a separate bowl. As the sugar gradually dissolves, be sure to pour melted honey into the butter;
  2. Separate the egg whites from the yolks. Stir the yolks into the butter mixture. Then sift the flour into the same bowl. The dough must be kneaded very well;
  3. When the dough is ready, it must be divided into portioned pieces and roll balls from each, which will later turn into cookies;
  4. Now it's time to add the nuts. Be sure to calcine them and use a blender to turn them into crumbs of a very small size. Dip each cookie ball first in the beaten egg white and then coat in the nut crumbs;
  5. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper, and then spread the cookies on it. In each of them it is necessary to make a recess in the middle. Put to cook pastries in the oven. Set the thermal mode to 170 degrees. After ten minutes from the start of cooking, remove the baking sheet and again push a small hole in the center in each ball. Cook the cookies for another 10 minutes, then take them out and put your favorite jam in the squeezed center. Cool slightly and serve with tea.

Nut and honey egg-free cookies

If you have a lot of fresh honey available, then be sure to try making such cookies. Honey goes very well with walnuts, so the cookies are extraordinarily tasty.

  • flour - 150 g;
  • sugar - 50 g;
  • vegetable oil - 50 ml;
  • baking powder - 1 sachet;
  • honey - 80 g;
  • walnut - 100 g;
  • banana puree- 50 g;
  • cinnamon and salt.

Time limit: 105 minutes.

By calorie content: 403 Kcal / 100 g.

How to cook honey biscuits With walnuts without eggs:

  1. First, chop the walnuts and set them aside. After that, in a separate bowl, combine all the powder ingredients together;
  2. Take another container and mash the banana puree with sugar in it. Also, to this mixture, it is necessary to gradually stir in melted honey and vegetable oil;
  3. When both mixtures are ready for liquid, it is necessary to stir in about half of the flour mixture. Mix everything and sprinkle nuts. After the nuts, it's time for the rest of the flour. Now after adding all the ingredients, knead the cookies well. The mixture should turn out to be quite sticky, so it will not work at all with a rolling pin;
  4. To get cookies, the dough will need to be frozen first. To do this, lay out the film on the table and use a spatula to put all the available dough on it. Roll the film into a roll and leave it in the freezer for 60 minutes;
  5. When this time has passed, lay paper on a baking sheet, and then remove the dough. It will need to be cut into circles using molds. Preheat oven to 185 degrees. After that, your cookies will need to be left for 15 minutes.

Shortbread cookies with nuts

If you want to cook unusually tender and crumbly biscuits, then the most the best choice becomes sandy. It will be the best choice in any situation.

  • flour - 500 g;
  • egg yolk - 3 pcs.;
  • sugar - 200 g;
  • butter or margarine - 300 g;
  • walnuts - 150 g;
  • baking powder - 1 tsp. l.;
  • salt.

Time limit: 50 minutes.

Calorie content: 471 Kcal / 100 g.

Steps for baking cookies for tea:


Oatmeal cookies with nuts

The conversation that cookies are incredibly harmful to the figure practically does not apply to oatmeal. Hercules is extremely useful, because it helps to remove toxins, and also contains great amount useful substances.

  • oatmeal flakes - 150 g;
  • flour - 150 g;
  • butter - 250 g;
  • sugar - 150 g;
  • walnuts - 80 g;
  • egg - 2 pcs.;
  • soda - 1 tsp. l..

Time limit: 45 minutes.

Calorie content: 449 Kcal / 100 g.

How to bake oatmeal cookies with nuts:

  1. Mix all the sugar and eggs together. To make the mixture more airy, use a mixer to beat everything;
  2. Sift the flour together with the baking soda and add it to the egg mixture. Mix everything so that there are no lumps. Next, add hercules. The last step is to put softened butter in a bowl;
  3. Knead well all the dough, and then pour in the chopped nuts. After you mix everything again, make balls out of the dough and place them on a baking sheet. Delicious oatmeal cookies will cook for at least a quarter of an hour. The oven must be turned on at 170 degrees.

Curd ears with walnuts

To make a more satisfying cookie, adding cottage cheese to it is suitable. So it will turn out not only tasty, but also very useful.

  • egg - 2 pcs.;
  • wheat flour - 300 g;
  • butter - 200 g;
  • granulated sugar - 150 g;
  • white raisins - 100 g;
  • walnut - 100 g;
  • cottage cheese with high fat content - 200 g;
  • vanilla - 1 pack;
  • extinguished soda - 1 tsp. l..

Time limit: 1 hour.

Calories: 378 kcal.

Recipe cottage cheese cookies with walnuts step by step:

  1. Rinse the raisins very thoroughly and soak them for 15 minutes in boiling water so that they are completely swollen. Dry it well with paper towels;
  2. When the roasted nuts have cooled, grind them to the desired state. Also cut the raisins into 4 pieces. After that, add 60 g of sugar to them and mix everything well;
  3. Melt butter until completely liquid. After that, add all the remaining sugar to the butter mixture. Also add vanilla and eggs to this bowl. Mix everything until smooth;
  4. Use a sieve to rub the curd. Then add it to the butter mixture and stir in the baking powder. After that, it was time for the agony. Immediately sift it into the bowl and knead the dough;
  5. Roll out the sheet quite thinly. Put on it already prepared raisins with walnuts. This filling must be slightly pressed down. Then roll everything into a roll and cut the dough across. Lay the cookies on a baking sheet. The baking temperature is 180 degrees. You will need about 12 minutes to prepare cookies with nuts and cottage cheese.

  1. Nut cookies can be prepared from various kinds test. It doesn't matter at all whether it was cooked with kefir, honey or other ingredients. That is why it is very easy to experiment with this kind of sweetness. The result will still be wonderful;
  2. Before adding nuts to the dough, be sure to toast them. To do this, you can use both a frying pan and an oven;
  3. If you do not like large nuts, then after roasting they can be crushed. A simple knife or blender will help you with this;
  4. Walnut in cookies goes well with sesame seeds and soaked raisins, so these toppings can be mixed if desired.

Enjoy your meal!

Bright icing for cookies - icing, royal icing- prepared on the basis of only two ingredients, after which it is lightly tinted with food coloring. If you want to do without bright colors, just leave it snow-white - it will also turn out very elegant and festive.

Time: 2 hours. Yield: 30 pieces with a diameter of 5-6 cm.

Ingredients

  • 225 grams of flour
  • 170 grams softened butter
  • 100 grams of sugar
  • 90 grams of walnuts
  • 2 eggs and 1 protein
  • 0.5 tsp cinnamon
  • 250 grams of powdered sugar
  • decorative sugar sprinkles
  • food coloring - on the tip of a knife

How to make hazelnut cookies

The cookies themselves are prepared according to the principle shortcrust pastry- by whipping the butter until fluffy, after which all the other ingredients are introduced. Softened butter beat with a mixer until fluffy, and then add sugar and cinnamon to it.

Then add eggs to the mixture and beat again.

Grind walnuts in a blender. You can replace the walnuts with any other nuts if you wish.

Add chopped nuts to the butter-egg base for the dough.

Now add flour to the dough and stir it in with a spoon.

The dough should be soft and elastic.

Sprinkling the table with a thick layer of flour, roll out the dough into a layer 3-4 mm thick. Cut out cookies using cookie cutters. You can make all the same molds, or you can cut out different ones - at your discretion.

Bake cookies at 190 degrees on a baking sheet lined with parchment. The cookies should be lightly browned around the edges. Cool the finished cookies completely - this is very important before you begin to cover them with icing.

To prepare the glaze, mix the protein and powdered sugar.

Knead the mass until smooth, so that not a single lump remains. The icing should be smooth and moderately thick.

Dissolve a little food coloring in a teaspoon of water and add it to the icing. Mix the frosting well.

Using a cut-off bag or a pastry bag, apply frosting around the perimeter of the cookies. This rim will allow you to cover the cookies with icing so that it does not spread.
Allow the rim to dry after application for 20-30 minutes.

Add to glaze 1-2 tbsp. a spoonful of water and fill the space inside the rim with icing.

Decorate cookies with sugar sprinkles.

Let the icing set and dry. In half an hour it will be covered with a crust, and you can treat yourself to cookies. If you want to store cookies, leave them overnight at room temperature for the icing to dry completely.

On a note. Cookies keep well, so you can cook right away. big portion by transferring the cookies to an airtight container.

Cookies with nuts are not just a treat, but a tasty utility. Fragrant, crumbly, melt-in-your-mouth products are great for family tea party. There are many recipes for hazelnut cookies. The most delicious must be prepared by yourself.

Shortbread nut cookies

Shortcrust pastry cookies are very tender and crumbly.

Compound:

  • margarine - 150 g;
  • powdered sugar - 2 tbsp. spoons;
  • wheat flour - 200 g;
  • peanuts - 100 g;
  • vanillin - 1 sachet.

Subsequence:

  1. Roast the peanuts in a dry frying pan and remove the skins. Grind in a blender.
  2. Beat soft margarine with powder, nuts and vanilla. Stir in the flour in several batches.
  3. Refrigerate the dough for 30 minutes.
  4. Tear off small pieces and shape them into balls.
  5. Cover a baking sheet with parchment, heat the oven to 160 degrees, lay out the future cookies and bake for 25 minutes.
  6. Roll the finished cookies in coconut flakes.

These biscuits go well with aromatic coffee.

almond treat

A simple but very tasty almond nut cookie is made from simple and affordable ingredients:

  • soft butter - 200 g;
  • sugar - 150 g;
  • chicken eggs (small) - 2 pieces;
  • flour - 200 g;
  • baking powder - half a teaspoon;
  • nuts (almonds) - 50 g.

Subsequence:

  1. Mix butter and sugar intensively, add two eggs one at a time.
  2. Roast and grind nuts. Fall asleep in the dough.
  3. Mix baking powder with flour and add parts to the dough. Mix well.
  4. Form small sticks.
  5. Baking temperature 170 degrees. Time - 15 minutes.

Fragrant macaroons delicious on its own. You can add chocolate notes if you decorate the dessert with melted chocolate.

With nut filling

This recipe was popular in the days of mothers and grandmothers. home taste childhood biscuits stuffed with nuts and honey will not leave many indifferent.

For the test you will need:

  • wheat flour - 750 g;
  • peasant butter (butter) - 150 g;
  • sour cream - 250 g;
  • a pinch of salt.

The benefits of nuts for human body invaluable. Most housewives tend to add nuts to all their culinary masterpieces. Cookies with walnuts (pictured) perfect option for breakfast. It is quite high in calories, but according to nutritionists, the whole high-calorie food you can eat until noon.

Therefore, nut cookies eaten in the morning will not harm your figure, but you will get a lot of vitamins, trace elements and vegetable protein, which nuts are so rich in. Treat yourself to a dessert like walnut cookies more often (photo), and your body will thank you!

And how many options for preparing this delicacy exist! The recipe allows you to add dried apricots, prunes, raisins, cinnamon, chocolate to walnut cookies (pictured). You can experiment with the nuts themselves - instead of walnuts, put peanuts, hazelnuts, almonds, cashews, pistachios, pine nuts or Brazil nuts. Walnut cookies, as in the photo, are tender and fragrant, but at the same time very satisfying. Just a few pieces as a snack - and hunger will recede for a long time.

Walnuts (photo) are very common in our lives. They are added to many types of baked goods and confectionery- in cakes, in pies, in cookies, in ice cream. Why is it so important to eat them regularly?

in walnuts in in large numbers contains omega-3,6,9 acids. They help our heart cope with stress, cleanse blood vessels, have an antioxidant effect and slow down the aging process. These acids are very good for maintaining normal brain function. Not in vain walnut even by appearance looks like a human brain!

The composition of the walnut includes vitamin E, vitamin A, B vitamins, thiamine, folic acid. It is simply necessary for all women to maintain attractiveness and health. And thanks to walnuts, we have a sound sleep and a good mood.

Features of making walnut cookies

Gentle shortbread with walnuts (photo) will perfectly complement tea drinking in your cozy kitchen. But in order for your family to be delighted, you need to follow some conditions:

  • Walnuts must be well peeled from films, they must be finely chopped. The recipe allows you to grind walnut pieces, depending on the preferences of the hostess - someone likes bigger, someone smaller;
  • The dough from which the nut cookies are baked should contain a lot of sugar and butter;
  • The flour that you will add to the dough should contain as little gluten as possible. If there is a lot of it, the dough will turn out to be less elastic, and the nut cookies will break;
  • Flour must be sifted;
  • For more plasticity of the dough, the recipe allows you to replace eggs with water, but they will suffer from this taste qualities cookies;
  • To make the nut cookies (photo) soft, the recipe advises kneading the dough as quickly as possible - in just a couple of minutes;
  • The dough must be rolled out to a thickness of no more than 10 mm. If you make it thicker, it won't bake.

Baking shortbread nut cookies

The recipe by which we will cook walnut cookies (photo) is surprisingly simple. You can even involve children in its preparation - all together you will get a lot of positive emotions when you cut out figures from dough.

We will need:

  • 0.5 kilograms of flour;
  • 300 grams of butter;
  • 3 egg yolks;
  • 1 cup chopped walnuts;
  • 1 cup of sugar;
  • A pinch of salt;
  • Half a teaspoon of soda.

Cooking steps

  1. We mix flour and soda, form a slide, in the middle of which we make a small depression;
  2. Cream butter with sugar, salt and egg yolks. The resulting mass is poured into the recess;
  3. We mix the mass very quickly, knead the dough, roll it into a lump. The recipe advises putting the dough in the cold for half an hour;
  4. After the dough has rested, you need to roll it into a large layer. You can start cutting out figures from it - using special molds or a knife. The recipe even allows the use of an ordinary glass;
  5. We spread the future cookies on a greased baking sheet and sprinkle with walnuts. The recipe advises to smear the surface of the cookies with egg yolks before sprinkling;
  6. We bake healthy treat at a temperature of 250°C. The recipe says the cookies are ready when they are golden brown.

Amazing nut cookies (photo) are ready. It's time to brew fragrant strong tea and call the whole family to the table. Help yourself and enjoy the nut treat! Enjoy your meal!

Video recipe for making hazelnut cookies