Ingredients
- 4 oz walnuts
- 5 oz all-purpose flour
- 2 table spoons fine castor sugar
- 4 oz / 1 stick butter at room temperature
- 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
- Powdered sugar / icing sugar
Method
- Pre-heat oven to 300 F.
- Butter a cookie sheet generously
- In a mixing bowl beat butter and sugar until soft and fluffy
- Add vanilla and beat well
- Sift the flour
- Grind the walnuts in a food processor until it becomes a coarse powder. Stir the nuts several times when grinding to prevent becoming oily
- Stir ground nuts and flour into the butter mixture
- Make small marble sized balls with the mixture using palm of your hands
- Place these in a prepared cookie sheet and bake for about 45 minutes
- Let cool the cookies for about 10 – 15 minutes
- While they are still warm, roll in powdered sugar
- Let cool completely and roll again in powdered sugar
- Makes about 30 cookies
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