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Saturday, March 20, 2010

Nut-Corners

This recipe is just a delicious treat you can bring to any party. You can serve them in any size and make them in big slabs, so that gives you the possibility to make huge batches of them. 
Ingredients:

Base: 300g flour, 150g butter, 100g sugar, 1 Tbsp vanilla essence or 1pkt vanilla sugar, 1teaspoon bakingpowder, 2 eggs

Topping: 200g butter, 200g sugar, 200g almonds ground, 200g hazelnuts ground, 2pkt vanilla-sugar or 2 tablespoons vanilla essence, 6 tablespoons apricot-jam, water, chocolate melted 





 Instructions:            





Mix the flour, butter, sugar, vanilla, bakingpowder and eggs to a dough and leave in fridge for about 30 minutes.

For the topping, melt butter in a saucepan, add sugar, almonds, hazelnuts, vanilla  and 4 tablespoons of water. Let simmer for a couple of minutes.

Preheat the oven to 175 °C. Prepare bakingtray with baking paper, roll out the dough from the fridge to a thin base. Top with a thin layer of apricot jam.

In the end, spread the base with the nut mixture and bake for 35 min.

Cut into triangles when nearly cool. Melt the chocolate carefully, dip the cold triangles into chocolate or paint the rims of the trianlges with chocolate.














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