Walnut Dreams - Biscuits

Submitted by Karen Elizabeth

"A melting little biscuit, not too sweet. We have always enjoyed these. From Readers Digest : Quick & Thrifty Cooking"

 

• Ready In: 32mins
• Ingredients: 7
• Yields: 18 biscuits

ingredients

• 125 g butter, softened
• 1⁄4 cup icing sugar, unsifted
• 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
• 1 cup flour, sifted
• 1 pinch ground nutmeg
• 1 pinch salt
• 3⁄4 cup finely chopped walnuts

directions

1. Preheat oven to 150°C / 300°F.
2. Cream butter and icing sugar until light and fluffy.
3. Stir in vanilla essence, flour, nutmeg, salt and walnuts, to create a soft dough.
4. Roll the dough into 2 cm balls.
5. Place them about 3cm apart on a lightly greased baking tray, pressing each ball with the heel of your hand, to a thickness of about 1 cm.
6. Bake, uncovered, for 20 minutes, or until the bottoms are golden brown.
7. Cool on a wire rack.

Reviews

[NorthwestGal]

These were great cookies, not too sweet and nicely packed with walnut flavor. My dough was a bit dry, so I think I will try using granulated sugar next time, to see if it helps with the dry texture of my cookies. But I really do love walnuts and will make these again. Thank you for sharing your recipe, Karen Elizabeth. Made for Fall 2011 Pick-A-Chef event.

 

[Tansy1308]

Great tasting melt in the mouth biscuit - will be a treat when I have walnuts on hand, thank you.

 

[Jubes]

Loved these biscuits! I used a ready blended gluten-free flour (Orgran brand) in place of the wheat flour to make these cookies suitable for my gluten-free diet. Worked beautifully. I processed the walnuts in my Bamix mini-mill.....perhaps a little too fine...though worked great still. I think the walnuts would also be good if hand chopped and slightly less processed too. These biscuits did have a real 'melt-in-the-mouth' texture and perfect served with coffee. Very delicate. Served lightly dusted with extra icing (confectioners) sugar. The biscuits did take longer in my oven and were very lightly browned underneath and not as much on top.....perhaps something to do with the gluten-free flour used. Surprisingly these biscuits had only a slightly sweet nutty taste....not as walnutty flavoured as I had expected. Would definitely make these again. Photo also to be posted Editted to add- these biscuits taste even better the next day......I'm so pleased that I baked a double batch :)

 

[invictus]

What a treat! A bit of an expensive cookie to make given the ingredients versus the yield but a wonderful occassional cookie. These are wonderful with a cup of coffee or tea in the afternoon. I dusted mine with powdered sugar after seeing Annacia's beautiful photo and think that it is the perfect addition to these cookies.

 

[Annacia]

I love these cookies! They are not very sweet and they melt in your mouth when you take a sip of of coffee. Gotta love that :D. I used pastry flour, Splenda for the sugar and mace for the nutmeg (just because I like it). I was just going to say that mine were rather dry however I just noticed while typing that it was totally my own fault. I made a half recipe and while I halved all of the other ingredients for some reason I used the full cup of flour!! I'm shocked and pleased that they came out so well, wow, fabulous recipe. At 24 mins in the oven they were baked and browning on the bottoms but not colored on top. Went ahead and took them out and they are simply grand. Kind of a cross between a sandie and shortbread in taste and texture (of course I did mess up and double the flour so that might be where the shortbread likeness came from. Anyway, they are great tasting and very forgiving cookies. Give them a try.