Walnut Dreams - Biscuits

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

• Ready In: 32 mins
• 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.