German hazelnut cookies

Name: German hazelnut cookies
Total time: 1500 s
Yield: 4-6 servings
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 1 cup whole hazelnuts; 1/3 cup sugar; 1/2 cup /1 stick butter, soft; 1 egg yolk; 1 tsp. vanilla extract; 1 cup all-purpose flour, sifted; 1/4 tsp. salt

Sarvat Hanif @sarvathanif

Canada

The ingredients for this week’s challenge are a challenge for me. I don’t eat pork. Allergic to butternut squash and rhubarb. What is left is rice flour and cobnut. I have not made anything with rice flour for quite some time and only used it along with corn flour/starch to coat the chicken for frying. Cobnut was an interesting ingredient, one I had not heard of before. Some digging revealed that it is popular in the UK; hazelnuts are also called filberts, cobnuts, and hazels. The name filbert is due to the celebration of St. Philbert, which is the peak season of harvest for hazelnuts.
Hazelnuts I had on hand as I was going to bake German hazelnut cookies. So I hope this recipe for German hazelnut cookies will be accepted in the challenge as a substitute for cobnut.
#GoldenApron23

Sarvat Hanif @sarvathanif

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Ingredients

25 minutes

4-6 servings

1 cupwhole hazelnuts
1/3 cupsugar
1/2 cup/1 stick butter, soft
1egg yolk
1 tsp.vanilla extract
1 cupall-purpose flour, sifted
1/4 tsp.salt

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Steps

25 minutes

1

Pre-heat oven to 325F.
2

Chop the hazelnuts in a food processor.
3

Place softened butter, sugar, and vanilla in a bowl and beat on medium high until pale and fluffy.
4

Add egg yolk and mix again. Be sure to scrape down the sides a few times.
5

Sift flour and salt into the cookie batter. Mix on low until just combined.
6

Add 3/4 of the chopped hazelnuts and mix on low until just combined.
7

Using a cookie scoop or your hands, form the dough into 18 balls and place on a prepared cookie sheet.
8

Using a fork, press down on the cookie a couple times (horizontally and vertically) to flatten it out.
9

Sprinkle chopped hazelnuts on the top of the cookies; lightly press the hazelnuts into the cookie dough.
10

Bake the cookies for about 12-15 minutes. Check them at 12 minutes and bake longer from there. The cookies are ready when the edges are golden brown.
11

Cool and enjoy with a cup of tea.