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.