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Whole-grain nut shortbread

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Ingredients for 1 servings:

  • 1,000 g wheat, freshly ground
  • 500 g cane sugar (raw cane sugar)
  • 500 g butter, cold
  • 250 g hazelnuts or walnuts or almonds, ground
  • 1 tbsp vanilla sugar
  • 1 tsp cream of tartar baking powder
  • 4 eggs
  • e.g. chocolate coating, dark chocolate or icing
  • possibly cocoa powder
  • possibly grease for the tray

Instructions

Working time approx. 30 minutes; Rest time approx. 1 hour; Cooking/baking time approx. 10 minutes; Total time approx. 1 hour 40 minutes

wholesome with wheat and nuts

Pile the dry ingredients onto a work surface or into a large bowl. Cut the butter into pieces, add the eggs, and knead everything thoroughly. For a darker dough, add cocoa powder. Let the dough rest for about 1 hour. Using a pastry piping bagel or meat grinder, pipe swirls, sticks, or “S” shapes onto a baking sheet (greased or lined with parchment paper). Bake in a preheated oven at approximately 175°C (350°F) for about 10 minutes, until lightly browned. Once cooled, decorate with melted chocolate coating, powdered sugar, or icing. One batch makes about 3-4 baking sheets for me, but I always make at least double the amount. Since the dough hardly spreads, a few millimeters of space on the sheet is sufficient. Preparing the dough is quick, but working with it takes a little more time, especially for beautiful decoration.

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Written by John Myers

Professional Chef with 29 years of industry experience at the highest levels. Restaurant owner. Beverage Director with experience creating world-class nationally recognized cocktail programs. Food writer with a distinctive Chef-driven voice and point of view.

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