Walnut cookie revival: Bake without a cookie maker

With this method, sweet walnut cookies aren't just for those with a special cookie maker. Anyone can make them in a regular oven. You simply need to prepare molds shaped like walnuts. You can fill the cookies with any cream, such as walnut or pistachio cream.

Before making walnut cookies without a cookie maker, you'll need to create the molds. For this, you'll need: 1 cleaned half walnut shell, parchment paper, and aluminum foil.

Cut rectangles from the parchment paper and aluminum foil. The paper should be larger—about 5 x 8 inches—while the aluminum foil should be about 5 x 3 inches. Crumple the paper into a ball and wrap it halfway with aluminum foil. Then place it in the walnut shell. Wrap the foil to the end and press the mold into shape. Carefully remove it. Make 30 cookie molds this way.

With the given proportions, you can prepare about 30 cookies filled with walnut cream.

Ingredients:

• 2 eggs
• 2 cups of flour
• 1 and 1/3 cups of butter
• 1 cup of powdered sugar
• 1 tablespoon of sour cream
• 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda
• 1 teaspoon of vinegar
• 2/3 cup of dulce de leche
• 2/3 cup of ground walnuts
• 1/4 cup of milk

Instructions:

1. Melt half a stick of butter in a saucepan.
2. In a bowl, add the flour, 2 tablespoons of powdered sugar, the melted and cooled butter, 2 eggs, and sour cream.
3. In a separate dish, combine the baking soda with vinegar; it should foam. Add it to the dough and mix the ingredients with a spoon.
4. Work the dough by hand and form it into a ball.
5. Scoop small portions of the dough with a teaspoon and shape them into balls. Press them onto the prepared cookie molds on the convex side.
6. Place the filled molds in a preheated oven at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 15 minutes. Set aside to cool after baking.
7. Pour hot milk over the ground walnuts and let them cool. They must be cold to prevent curdling the cream.
8. Using a mixer, beat 1 cup of butter into a fluffy cream. Add 1/4 cup of powdered sugar and 3 tablespoons of dulce de leche. Mix, then combine with the walnuts.
9. Spoon the cream into both halves of the cookies, then combine them into walnut shapes.

Inside these sweet shells, you can use delicious chocolate-hazelnut cream. You can make this homemade Nutella with hazelnuts, dark chocolate, and condensed milk. Another idea for filling is pistachio cream, which you can prepare from roasted pistachios, white chocolate, and cream.