Ingredients
- 3 tablespoon butter
- 1 ½ cup sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 egg yolk
- 1 teaspoons lemon juice
- 2 ⅓ cup all-purpose flour
- 2 ½ teaspoons baking powder
- 1 ¼ teaspoons cinnamon -- ground
- ¼ teaspoons salt
- ¼ teaspoons nutmeg -- ground
- ½ cup walnuts -- finely chopped
myYUM! collection
Sweet Dreams, ### IMPORTED myFavorites, Swiss, Xmas, Cookies
Zimtsterne (2). To import, drag image to your MacGourmet recipe box.
Directions
1 Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Lightly grease your baking sheets.
2 Cream the butter, sugar, 2 eggs, egg yolk and lemon juice together until fluffy.
3 Combine the flour, baking powder, cinnamon, salt and nutmeg. Add the flour mixture to the creamed mixture and stir in the chopped nuts.
4 On a lightly floured cloth-covered board roll the dough, 1/3 at a time, to 1/16 inch thick. Cut with a 1 inch star shaped cookie cutter. Place cookies on the prepared baking sheets. Brush the tops of the cookies with the remaining egg white, beaten until frothy.
5 Bake at 375 degrees F (190 degrees C) for 6 to 8 minutes.
6 Variations: Food coloring may be added to the egg white used to brush the tops of the cookies. Two cookies may be put together to form snowflakes with dabs of confectioners' sugar icing made with 1 cup confectioners' sugar, 1/2 teaspoon vanilla and 1 to 1 1/2 tablespoons cream.
Per serving: 26 Calories; 1g Fat (25% calories from fat); 1g Protein; 4g Carbohydrate; 6mg Cholesterol; 16mg Sodium
NOTES : Quite good - not fully what I had in mind, but okay.
2006 Xmas : they get too hard if I do the egg-white as a second step (i.e. bake, put on egg white and then back into the oven) and they dry out then, so next time just put the egg whites on and make sure you don't bake too long then the egg whites should turn out fine.
