Walnut crisps
These cookies are wicked easy to make, but if you don't have absolutely fresh walnuts, forget it.
4 oz. (1 stick) unsalted butter, cold, cut into 8 pieces
1/2 cup of sugar
3/4 cup all-purpose flour
1 cup (3 1/2 oz.) walnut halves and pieces
pinch of salt
In the bowl of an electric mixer cream butter and sugar on medium speed until smooth, 3 to 4 minutes. Add the remaining ingredients and mix until well-blended, about 2 minutes.
Turn out the dough onto a lightly floured board. Roll out the dough into 2 or 3 even, 1-inch-thick logs. Wrap the logs separately in plastic wrap and refrigerate until firm, about 1 hour.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Place oven rack in middle position and line baking sheets with parchment paper. Slice the logs into 1/4 inch disks and place 1/2 inch apart on prepared baking sheets.
One sheet at a time, bake the cookies until the edges are just lightly golden, 12 to 15 minutes. Cool the cookies on the baking sheets set on wire racks.
Makes about 9 dozen little cookies. Which can be eaten in one sitting by two people, so you should probably freeze a log or two just to be safe from your own vices. This recipe easily doubles, but you didn't need to know that either, did you? These cookies are the reason I want to buy a commercial mixer. Sad, really.
3 Comments:
commercial as in 50 lb bags of flour? or commercial as in a good heavy duty kitchen-aide mixer? and what's sad about wanting the right tools for a job? sounds like the perfect excuse to save up those recycling pennies from the beer cans and pop cans...perhaps from some other source too. like, open a soup restaurant using your killer recipes, maybe?
oh,oh,oh, i almost forgot. think about it! if you open a soup restaurant, you can write off the commercial mixer as a BUSINESS expense!!! what an idea! you could go into business for yourself, just so we can experience your soups and cookies.. damn, i'm a marketing genius. maybe i should go into business consulting. whacha think?
Commercial as in I need a marketing genius to get the hernia lifting the sacks of flour. I already have a KitchenAid KSM5 - 325 watts of cookie-making raw power! Have your report on my desk first thing in the morning and we'll see what we can cook up. Oops! Pun alert!
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