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🍽️ Crunchy Nut Half-Moons

117 kcal · 30 min · 4 servings

Ingredients

• 400 g flour
• 125 g sugar
• 125 g butter
• 2 small eggs
• 80 g honey
• 40 g raisins (finely chopped)
• 40 g dried fig (finely chopped)
• 65 g honey
• 10 g oranges (candied finely chopped)
• 10 g lemon zest (candied finely chopped)
• 100 g walnuts (finely chopped)
• 1 tsp ground cinnamon
• juice of one lemon
• 100 g powdered sugar

Instructions

1. 1. Preheat your oven to 180 degrees Celsius. If your oven has a convection fan setting, turn it on.
2. 2. Put flour, sugar, butter, eggs, and honey into a large bowl.
3. 3. Work all the ingredients together by hand or with a mixer until you have a firm, smooth dough.
4. 4. Roll the dough out very thinly on a floured work surface.
5. 5. Use a round cookie cutter to cut out many small circles from the dough.
6. 6. Mix the ingredients for the nut filling thoroughly in a small bowl.
7. 7. Take a small amount of the filling and place it on one half of each dough circle.
8. 8. Fold the empty half of the dough circle over the filling to create a half-moon shape.
9. 9. Press the edges of the half-moons together firmly so that the filling cannot escape.
10. 10. Place the pastries on a baking sheet lined with baking paper.
11. 11. Bake the half-moons in the preheated oven for about 25 minutes, until they are golden brown.
12. 12. Take the baking sheet out of the oven and let the pastries cool down slightly until they are just lukewarm.
13. 13. Whisk powdered sugar and lemon juice in a small bowl until you have a smooth glaze.
14. 14. Brush the still lukewarm nut pastries with the lemon glaze.
15. 15. Let the glaze dry completely in the air before serving the pastries.

Nutrition per serving

• kcal: 117
• Protein: 2 g · Fett/Fat: 5 g · Carbs: 17 g