Nonnie's Cookie Recipe

Nonnie’s Christmas Cookies

Dough
1 cup soft butter or margarine
3 cups of sifted all purpose flour
1 package active dry yeast
2 Tbls warm water
3 egg yolks
1 cup dairy sour cream
1 tsp vanilla extract

Nut Filling
4 cups walnuts food processed
Add 1 cup granulated sugar, 3 tsp vanilla, ½ cup milk. Mix well

Confectioner’s sugar to sprinkle on top when cookies are cooled


Cut butter into flour using stand mixer, until consistency of small bread crumbs forms. Soften yeast in 2 tblsp warm water. Add egg yolks, sour cream, vanilla and yeast mixture to flour mixture. Mix thoroughly. Then place dough in fridge for a few hours or over night. Roll dough out on a floured surface to 1/8 thickness. Cut in 3 inch squares. Put a little more then 1 tsp of filling into each square. Moisten edges, pinch up corners. Bake on ungreased 375 degree oven for 15 minutes. Cool and sprinkle. Makes about 3 dozen.

Great Nonnie's Cookies Post 2

Step 1: Girls mixing filling Step 2: Waiting to bake Step 3: fresh baked cookies

First of all, Happy New Year!!!!!! Wow, can't believe it's 2011!!!! Have you been on pins on needles waiting to see how the cookies came out??? Well, wait no longer.................I made them yesterday, and the girls said they were verrrrrrry good, after they gulped down several.

I will offer a tip if you are going to make these, when you get the dough from the fridge and are ready to roll it out, make sure your work surface is well floured, but not overed floured. The dough is very sticky, I think because of the sour cream. The recipe said to roll it out to 1/8 inch thick, but I rolled it a little thicker and then stretched out the dough squares by hand to make them thinner. Also don't worry about not having enough filling, because the recipe offers more then needed, I think - - - If I did everthing right. So you don't have to be frugal with the teaspoon of filling per cookie, you can use slightly more. I even let my girls help me fill the squares, they had a lot of fun with this.

I love the taste!!! They are like a little slice of nut filled pastry heaven from the past!!!! Enjoy, and if you make these, I would luv to read your comments!!!! next post has the recipe.