Cookies "Nuts" - this is one of the most delicious treats for modern children and adults (especially for those who are "born" from the Soviet era), according to reviews on culinary sites.
Now for the manufacture of "shells" there are special nozzles in the electric device "waffle iron."
And before, only a few had a special cast-iron pan (double) at home, in which it was possible to bake dough pieces directly on the stove. Then they were filled with any sweet filling (usually boiled condensed milk) and nut kernels.
Indeed, such a dessert in appearance resembles a real inshell walnut.
And now you can cook, in addition to sweet "Nuts", also salty, which will be a real snack to a festive or everyday table.
There are many options for making Nuts cookies (recipes for the form), some of which are in this article.
Description
Compared to purchased pastries, homemade at all times has been and remains more delicious, natural, nutritious, economical (in terms of costs).
At the end of the 20th century, there wasn’t such an abundance of sweets and cakes on the shelves as at present. Then the housewives cooked all the desserts on their own - at home. Including cookies "Nuts" (in the form of gas or electric stove, in the oven).
The dough for the classic version of this dessert is quite simple - it consists of granulated sugar, eggs, butter, flour and soda.
As a filling, ordinary condensed milk was used, which had to be boiled at home (by placing a closed can in a pot of water).
This recipe will be described in the article as “Classic”. Also others with various fillings: cottage cheese, fruit puree, custard vanilla and chocolate cream, curd-peanut mixture, sour cream with herbs.
Cooking is very simple. All the features of the process will be fully mastered even by a young hostess.
Recommendations
To make the dish especially tasty and original, you can put different nuts in the filling: walnuts, almonds, hazelnuts, peanuts.
Optionally, the kernels can be whole or chopped using a blender.
It is also recommended to lightly fry the nuts before use, then the taste of the delicacy will be especially bright and saturated.
Classical
This is a favorite recipe for many cookies "Nuts" with condensed milk. You can buy ready-made condensed milk for cooking or cook at home (then it turns out to be more dense and more aromatic).
Description of the process of making cookies and ingredients:
- Cut butter (250 grams) into slices, place in a metal container and put on a stove, melt to a liquid state.
- In a bowl for kneading dough, beat 3 eggs and pour 150 grams of granulated sugar, beat the mixture.
- Add melted butter, mix.
- Pour salt (5 grams) and baking powder (10 grams).
- Gradually introduce wheat flour (0.5 kilograms), knead elastic dough.
- If condensed milk is cooked at home, then it is recommended to do it per day (for this proportion, 2 jars of 200 milliliters are needed).
- Grease the mold with vegetable oil (5 milliliters) and put on a stove to heat.
- From the dough to prepare balls with a diameter of 3-4 centimeters.
- Spread the blanks in a mold and bake on both sides (2-5 minutes each).
- At the end of the process, remove excess dough on the rims of the "shells" (crumbs can be added to the filling!).
- Prepare a mixture of boiled condensed milk and softened butter (100 grams).
- Cool the dough and fill each half with the filling, fasten in a nutlet.
The dessert is high-calorie, which does not allow it to be cooked too often. But this makes it even more desirable and tastier.
With chocolate filling
If there is no condensed milk, then you can always come up with a different filling for the Nuts cookies. Chocolate custard recipe is one of many varieties that can be used.
Cooking:
- The dough for cookies is the same, the process of baking blanks is similar.
- For the mixture, which will be filled with "Nuts", you need to drive 2 eggs and 100 grams of sugar into a container, beat.
- Add 20 grams of flour, mix the cream.
- Pour 250 milliliters of milk into the pan and boil.
- Then mix in the mixture and boil until thickened.
- Separately melt 50 grams of butter and 100 grams of dark chocolate, add to the cream.
- Stir, you can beat with a blender.
Filled with infant formula
In addition to condensed milk, cookies "Nuts" can be prepared with a filling of infant formula, which will also be tasty and aromatic.
The cream is prepared quickly and simply: it is necessary to mix butter, sugar, milk and cocoa powder in a container for cooking. Put on the stove and bring to a boil at medium temperature. Pour the baby mixture and cook until thickened.
After the cream has cooled, you can start "Nuts".
With vanilla custard
To prepare cookies for this recipe, the dough for the billets is kneaded differently (than in the previously described version). And as the filling of the dessert, vanilla custard is used, cooked at home.
Description of the process and ingredients:
- For the test, beat 2 eggs in a bowl, add sugar (80 grams), beat the mixture.
- Put butter out of the refrigerator to make it soft, add to the dough.
- Put sour cream (80 milliliters), 350 grams of flour, 90 grams of starch, 5 grams of soda, knead the dough.
- Oil the baking dish and preheat.
- Roll small balls out of the dough (slightly smaller than the cells in the mold) and lay them out to make the “shell” of cookies.
- When the surface of the workpieces is golden, put on a plate and cool.
- For the cream, mix 2 eggs and 100 grams of sugar, add vanilla (2 grams) and flour (20 grams).
- Combine the mixture with cool milk (250 milliliters) and cook the cream at medium temperature until boiling, cool.
- Pour the butter (50 grams) into the cream and mix, cool completely.
- Fill each half with cream and combine into a single "Nut".
Salty cookies
In addition to the old Nuts cookie recipe - with a sweet filling - there are also snack options. For example, with sour cream and chopped fresh parsley.
Description of the cooking process:
- For shortcrust pastry, grind 350 g of wheat flour and 200 g of margarine.
- Add salt (15 g), eggs (1 piece), milk (50 milliliters), knead the dough.
- Oil the baking dish (5 milliliters of vegetable oil), preheat.
- Form balls of dough, lay out alternately in a mold and bake from 2 sides.
- While the "shells" are cooling, prepare the filling: chop finely fresh parsley (70 grams) and combine with fat sour cream (70 milliliters).
- Stuff the halves, combine, put the appetizer on a dish and refrigerate.
With curd and peanut cream
According to this recipe, the Nuts cookies with condensed milk, cottage cheese and peanuts are quite satisfying, tasty, and original.
And as easy to prepare as in the classic version.
Description of the process and ingredients:
- Prepare a container for kneading dough, beat 2 eggs, add granulated sugar (60 grams), beat the mixture.
- Put soft butter (100 grams) and mayonnaise (80 milliliters) into the sugar-egg mixture.
- Pour out wheat flour (350 grams), soda, quenched with vinegar (half a teaspoon), knead elastic dough.
- Preheat the mold for cooking "shells", greasing with vegetable oil (10 milliliters).
- Form small balls and put into cells, cook at medium temperature - on both sides.
- Prepare a cream by combining 200 milliliters of condensed milk (raw) and soft butter (120 grams), beat.
- Pour the cottage cheese into the mixture (80 grams), beat.
- Put the cream in cold billets, add 1 kernel of peanuts (total 50 grams) per nut.
With apple and pear puree
This delicacy (sweet option) can be prepared not only from creamy, dairy or chocolate components, but also from fruit and berry.
In this recipe, the filling is made from pear puree, which is cooked in apple syrup. The result is an amazing Nuts cookie.
Description of the process and ingredients:
- For fruit puree, prepare 400 g of ripe pears (remove seeds and skin), chop into thin slices.
- Prepare juice from fresh apples (50 milliliters).
- Put the pears in a cooking bowl and pour in the juice, cook until soft.
- Prepare fruit puree from the mixture.
- Put soft butter (200 g), granulated sugar (100 g) in a container for kneading dough, and grind.
- Then add sour cream (100 milliliters), salt (5 g) and soda (5 g), mix the mixture.
- Then add 450 g of wheat flour and knead soft dough.
- Prepare a mold for the preparation of "Nuts", grease with vegetable oil (5 milliliters), heat up.
- Roll the balls from the dough and put into a mold, bake the workpiece, cool.
- If there remains crumbs from scraps of baked dough for "shells", then it is recommended to add it to fruit puree.
- Also chop 100 g of walnuts and pour into the filling, mix.
- Fill the halves with fruit puree, connect and sprinkle the seams with coconut flakes (only 20 g of the component).
Cookies in the form of "Nuts" cookies (according to the recipe) are ready.
Reviews
As for the feedback about this wonderful delicacy, you can mainly hear such reviews:
- Favorite cookie - Nuts.
- An adorable dessert for the whole family.
- The most delicious - cooked at home.
- The old cast-iron cookie-making form helps to bake a delicious sweet with condensed milk.
- The best filling is boiled condensed milk.
- Goodies come from childhood.
- The Nuts cookies are better than any gourmet sweets.