Advent Calendar – Day 20 – Walnut Coins
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?
Servings: 1 yield(s)
Prep Time: 60 mins
Cook Time: 8 mins
Total Time: 68 mins
Ingredients
    Cookie
  • 250 g flour
  • 1 egg
  • 65 g sugar
  • 1 vanilla sugar (1 sachet)
  • 125 g butter or margarine
    • Filling
  • orange jam
    • Topping
  • 150 g marzipan paste
  • 130 g icing sugar
    • Glaze
  • 200 g icing sugar
  • 40 g cocoa powder
  • 4-6 tbsp warm water
  • walnuts
Instructions
  1. 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.
  2. Roll out the dough. Cut out small round cookies (roughly 3cm diameter). Place on a baking tray and bake for 8 minutes.
  3. Stir the orange jam until really smooth, then spread the jam on the cooled-down cookies.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. While the glaze is still wet, press half a walnut into the centre of the cookie.
Recipe Notes

My gran Hedwig's original recipe card. It's been used and loved for over 60 years.