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🍽️ Crunchy Nut and Jam Cookies

98 kcal · 30 min · 4 servings

Ingredients

• 125 g soft butter
• 1 egg
• 50 g sugar
• 40 g ground walnuts
• 200 g whole wheat flour
• 0.5 tsp baking powder
• cinnamon powder (1 pinch each)
• ground cloves (1 pinch each)
• 75 g red currant jam
• 100 g powdered sugar
• 2 tbsp lemon juice
• 30 walnut half pieces

Instructions

1. 1. Beat the soft butter with an electric hand mixer until fluffy.
2. 2. Add the egg, sugar, ground nuts, flour, baking powder, and spices.
3. 3. Mix everything into a firm dough.
4. 4. Knead the dough briefly by hand.
5. 5. Shape the dough into a ball.
6. 6. Wrap the dough ball in cling film.
7. 7. Let the dough rest in the refrigerator for 1 hour.
8. 8. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius.
9. 9. Dust the work surface with flour.
10. 10. Roll out the dough to a thickness of 3 to 4 millimeters.
11. 11. Cut out rectangular cookies with a fluted edge.
12. 12. Line a baking tray with baking paper.
13. 13. Place the cookies on the tray.
14. 14. Bake the cookies for about 12 minutes.
15. 15. Remove the baked cookies from the tray.
16. 16. Spread jam on one cookie.
17. 17. Press a second cookie on top.
18. 18. Let the cookies cool on a wire rack.
19. 19. Mix powdered sugar with lemon juice until smooth.
20. 20. Brush the cooled cookies with the glaze.
21. 21. Place a walnut half on each cookie immediately.
22. 22. Allow the glaze to dry.
23. 23. Use ground almonds instead of walnuts for round double-decker cookies.
24. 24. Decorate the glaze on round cookies with sliced almonds.

Nutrition per serving

• kcal: 98
• Protein: 1 g · Fett/Fat: 5 g · Carbs: 11 g