Walnut pillows

Recipes / Appetiziers

These delicious walnut-filled biscuits are the perfect accompaniment to a hot chocolate.

Recipe «Walnut pillows» presented in category Recipes / Appetiziers, to prepare this dish you will need no more 20 minutes. To make this dish at home by prescription from the author Gomer would need: 225g plain flour, 95g unsalted butter, cubed, 6 egg yolks, Vegetable oil, to grease, Plain flour, extra, to dust , Icing sugar mixture, to dust, Hot chocolate, to serve, 90g walnut pieces , 70g caster sugar, 60ml milk, 15g unsalted butter, melted, 1/2 tsp ground mixed spice.

Ingredients:

  • 225g plain flour 
  • 95g unsalted butter, cubed 
  • 6 egg yolks 
  • Vegetable oil, to grease 
  • Plain flour, extra, to dust 
  • Icing sugar mixture, to dust 
  • Hot chocolate, to serve 
  • 90g walnut pieces 
  • 70g caster sugar 
  • 60ml milk 
  • 15g unsalted butter, melted 
  • 1/2 tsp ground mixed spice 

Instructions

  1. Sift flour into a large bowl. Use your fingertips to rub butter into the flour until mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs. Add egg yolks and stir until a soft, sticky dough forms. Divide dough into 16 equal portions and roll into balls. Place on a baking tray and cover with plastic wrap. Place in the fridge for 30 minutes to chill.
  2. To make the walnut filling, place the walnuts in the bowl of a food processor and process until finely chopped. Place in a bowl. Add the sugar, milk, butter and mixed spice, and stir to combine.
  3. Preheat oven to 180°C. Brush a baking tray with oil to lightly grease.
  4. Roll out a dough portion on a lightly floured surface to an 8 x 10cm rectangle. Repeat with remaining dough portions. Place a heaped teaspoonful of walnut mixture in the centre of each rectangle. Fold over edges to enclose filling. Press edges together to seal. Place pillows, seam-side down, on the prepared tray.
  5. Bake in oven for 20 minutes or until golden. Remove from oven. Transfer to a wire rack to cool. Dust with icing sugar and serve with hot chocolate.