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Tuesday, November 9, 2010

The cookie of the week

Hello Everyone,
This is a new cookie recepie, that will warm you up in the cold winter days.
Blessings
The Family GrainMill


Walnut-Cream Cheese Cookies

4 cups freshly ground spelt wheat flour
1 ¼ teaspoons salt
4 sticks unsalted butter, softened
6 ounces low-fat cream cheese
1 ¼ cups sugar
2 ½ tablespoons vanilla extract
2 ½ cups walnut halves (1 ½ cups toasted and chopped, 1 cup finely chopped)


1. Line 2 baking sheets
2. Combine flour and salt
3. In a separate bowl mix butter and cream cheese until fluffy.
4. Mix in sugar and vanilla. Add flour mixture and mix it until combined
5. Stir in toasted walnuts
6. Divide the dough in half, and shape a log from each half
7. Wrap logs in parchment paper and freeze them about 30 minutes
8. Preheat oven to 350F
9. Roll one log in half of the walnuts and cut into ¼ inch thick slices
10. Bake cookies until golden, about 18 minutes
11. Cool it on a wire rack