Beautiful cookies for the holidays.
Ingredients
- ¼ cups all-purpose flour: 1 piece
- baking powder: 0.25 tsp
- salt: 0.25 tsp
- white sugar: 0.25 cup
- unsalted butter: 3 Tbsp
- cream cheese: 3 Tbsp (softened)
- egg yolk: 1 piece
- vanilla extract: 0.5 tsp
- egg white: 1 piece
- ground walnuts: 1 cup
- white sugar: 0.5 cup
- confectioners' sugar: 1 Tbsp (or more if needed)
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Stages of cooking
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Sift flour, baking powder, and salt together onto a sheet of waxed paper.
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Beat 1/4 cup white sugar, butter, and cream cheese together in a bowl with an electric mixer until creamy. Beat in egg yolk and vanilla.
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Stir flour mixture into butter mixture until dough is just combined. Divide dough into 3 equal portions; shape each portion into a disk, wrap disks in plastic wrap, and refrigerate for at least 4 hours or overnight.
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Beat egg white in a bowl with an electric mixture until frothy. Mix walnuts and 1/2 cup white sugar into egg white.
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
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Remove dough from plastic wrap and roll each disk out into a 7-inch circle. Spread 1/3 the egg white mixture onto each dough circle, leaving a 1/4-inch border around the edge of each circle. Cut each circle into 12 wedges. Roll up each wedge from the edge to the point and place, point-side down, on a baking sheet.
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Bake in the preheated oven until lightly browned, 12 to 14 minutes. Transfer to wire racks to cool and dust with confectioners' sugar.
