Yields:
1 Serving
Difficulty: Easy
Prep Time: 1 Hr
Cook Time:
8 Mins
Total Time:
1 Hr 8 Mins
Walnut Coins is a type of cookie that can divide the nation. Mainly because they contain marzipan. So if you like marzipan, you’re in for a treat. If you don’t like marzipan, look away now.
This recipe has been in my family for generations. My great-grandmother passed it on to my gran Hedwig (and her sisters too, of course), who passed it on to first my mum, and then me. And now I am passing it on to you.
Below is a picture of my gran’s recipe card, right on the top of the pile, handwritten and over 60 years old. It’s in German. Can you read it?
Ingredients
Adjust Servings
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Cookie
- Filling
- Topping
- Glaze
Instructions
- Mix the flour, egg, sugar, vanilla sugar and butter together to make a shortcrust dough. Refrigerate for 30 mins. In the meantime, preheat the oven to 225°C.
- Roll out the dough. Cut out small round cookies (roughly 3cm diameter). Place on a baking tray and bake for 8 minutes.
- Stir the orange jam until really smooth, then spread the jam on the cooled-down cookies.
- Add the icing sugar to the marzipan paste through a sieve. Then knead the paste until smooth. Roll out the marzipan and cut out circles the same size as the cookies. Place the marzipan on top of the jam.
- Mix the icing sugar and cocoa with a little bit of hot water to make a chocolate glaze. Cover each marzipan disc with the glaze.
- While the glaze is still wet, press half a walnut into the centre of the cookie.
Notes
My gran Hedwig's original recipe card. It's been used and loved for over 60 years.
