Austrian Nut Cookies Recipe

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These are my family's favorite Christmas cookies. If you arrange the slivered almonds in pinwheel fashion, the cookie looks like a poinsettia. —Marianne Weber, South Beach, Oregon

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Austrian Nut Cookies Recipe

Prep: 30 min. + chilling Bake: 10 min./batch + cooling

Yield: 20 Servings

30 10 40

Ingredients

1 cup all-purpose flour
2/3 cup finely chopped almonds
1/3 cup sugar
1/2 cup cold butter
1/2 cup raspberry jam
FROSTING:
1 ounce unsweetened chocolate, melted and cooled
1/3 cup confectioners' sugar
2 tablespoons butter, softened
Slivered almonds

Directions

In a bowl, combine flour, chopped almonds and sugar. Cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Form into a ball; cover and refrigerate for 1 hour.
On a floured surface, roll the dough to 1/8-in. thickness. Cut with a 2-in. round cutter and place 1 in. apart on greased baking sheets. Bake at 375° for 7-10 minutes or until the edges are lightly browned. Remove to wire racks to cool completely. Spread 1/2 teaspoon jam on half of the cookies; top with another cookie.
For frosting, combine chocolate, confectioners' sugar and butter. Spread on tops of cookies. Decorate with slivered almonds. Yield: 20 sandwich cookies.

Nutritional Facts 1 serving (1 each) equals 146 calories, 9 g fat (4 g saturated fat), 15 mg cholesterol, 58 mg sodium, 17 g carbohydrate, 1 g fiber, 2 g protein.

Originally published as Austrian Nut Cookies in Country Extra November 1997, p49

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Reviewed on Dec. 22, 2011 by GretchenSD

Very fragile cookies. Crumbs are excellent, but make Almond Nut Cookie instead.

Reviewed on Dec. 22, 2010 by GretchenSD

Very good! Everyone has liked them, even me... and I don't usually like nuts. We didn't use the chocolate frosting. Cut thick as these are very fragile cookies & if you want cookies instead of just crumbs, we found you have to be 3/8" thick.