Name: Easy nutty triangles - a classic Austrian Christmas cookie recipe
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 20 min
Ingredients: 450 g all purpose flour; 2 tsp baking powder; 150 g white sugar; 1 tbsp vanilla sugar; 1 pinch salt; 1 egg (large, room temperature); 280 g butter (cold , cut into cubes); 1.5 tbsp water (cold); 8 tbsp apricot jam; 300 g butter; 150 g brown sugar; 120 g white sugar; 2 tbsp vanilla sugar; 6 tbsp water; 300 g walnuts (coarsed, but no walnut flour); 300 g hazelnuts (roasted, and chopped ); 300 g dark chocolate; 160 g butter

Leckeres Nussecken Rezept in 2 Geschmacksrichtungen

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This is my favorite CHRISTMAS COOKIE recipe ever. a crispy shortcrust base topped with fruity apricot jam, a sweet nutty filling and the ends are dipped in a shiny dark chocolate glaze. You can variate the flavor in combining different nuts. This recipe incudes the flavors walnut/hazelnut and almond/pumpkin seeds. These cookies are easy and quick to make.

Christmas season is my favorite time of the. It all starts with decorating the house with lots of Christmas lights a couple of days after the All Saints /All Souls Days. I start reading Christmas stories to my kids. And at last we start baking Christmas cookies come the first Advent Sunday. Its our very own tradition that I started with my little sister Antonia when she was a kid. <3 <3 <3

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Nutty Triangels- things I love about this classic Austrian CHRISTMAS COOKIE recipe.

First of all I love the combination of different flavors. Nuts, the fruity flavor of the apricot jam, dark chocolate.
It’s an easy recipe. The most difficult steps about this CHRISTMAS COOKIE recipe is fitting the dough evenly into the baking tray, cutting the cookies. No biggie at all right?!? 😉
You get 80 cookies in a short time. Thats the most amazing thing ever. Its almost as quick as simple cut out cookies.
You can variate the flavors in using different kind of Nuts, differently flavored jams or different kind of chocolates for the glaze.
Lastly they taste sooooooo good and can be kept up to 3 weeks when stored in a cool place.

Nutty triangles – the most important steps about this cookie recipe

Spread the dough evenly onto the baking tray. I’m using a knife to get even edges.
Let the filling cool completely. It should only be slightly warm to the touch.
Cut he cookies when its still warm a little bit. The best way to cut the dough into triangles is to lay the sheet on the kitchen counter . Its difficult to cut it when its still in the baking tray.
The jam has to be without fruit pieces. A fine sieved one.
The glaze: don’t leave the crumps in it. Take them out before you dip the next cookie corners into it. Otherwise you won’t be able to dip all cookies into it .

At Last….

You can variate the flavor of the recipe in combining different nuts. My 2 favorite flavor Combos are:

Ground walnuts & chopped hazelnuts
Ground almonds & chopped pumpkin seeds
Another great way to change the flavor is in using another jam. I thing of orange jam or black current jam.
Chocolate glaze. If you don’t like the not so sweet taste of dark chocolate, try milk chocolate or white chocolate.

These “Nussecken” – Nutty triangles are perfect as a homemade gift. everybody loves cookies especially when they are as good and as unique as these. Promised you will be loved beyond measure , especially from your family of course 😉. One last tip: put some fitted baking paper between the layers of cookies if you stack them into the cookie box. They are best enjoyed cold right out of the fridge at least thats the way I like them best. When I can still hear the chocolate cover break when biting into it❤️.

If you make these amazing cookies and you fall in love with all the flavors immediately, please say “Hi” and leave me some kind words and a 5 star rating 😘. Don’t forget to tag us on Instagram. What I love the most, is hearing from you.

Sweet cookie hugs

Nina

Are you looking for more delicious cookie recipes? Maybe you’ll find some more CHRISTMAS COOKIE recipes you’ll fall in love with.❤️

Easy nutty triangles – a classic Austrian Christmas cookie recipe

This is my favorite CHRISTMAS COOKIE recipe ever. A crispy shortcrust base topped with apricot jam and a sweet nutty filling and the ends are dipped in dark chocolate. Sooo good. You can variate the flavor in combining different nuts for a different flavor. This recipe includes the flavors walnut-hazelnut and almond-pumpkin seeds. These cookies are easy and fast to make.

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Course: christmas cookies, christmas desserts, snacks

Cuisine: austrian

Keyword: austrian recipe, christmas cookies, christmas cookies ideas, christmas cookies recipes, nussecken, nuts, nutty triangles

Prep Time: 30 minutes

Cook Time: 20 minutes

resting time: 30 minutes

Servings: pieces

Calories: 171kcal

Author: Nina

Ingredients

Dough

450 g all purpose flour
2 tsp baking powder
150 g white sugar
1 tbsp vanilla sugar
1 pinch salt
1 egg large, room temperature
280 g butter cold , cut into cubes
1.5 tbsp water cold
8 tbsp apricot jam

Filling

300 g butter
150 g brown sugar
120 g white sugar
2 tbsp vanilla sugar
6 tbsp water
300 g walnuts coarsed, but no walnut flour
300 g hazelnuts roasted, and chopped

Chocolate glaze

300 g dark chocolate
160 g butter

Instructions

Dough

In a bowl of a stand mixer mix together all dry ingredients .
Add the butter and mix everything with the paddle attachment until the butter is incorporated into the dry ingredients . the butter and dry ingredients will look like a finely flaky mixture.
Add the other ingredients and mix until it almost comes together as a dough.
Knead everything into a dough with your hands, form into a disk, wrap plastic foil around it and petit rest in the fridge for about 30minutes .
Prepare a baking tray with baking paper.
Roll out the dough and fit it on the baking tray.
Smear 4tbsp of apricot jam onto the rolled out dough.
Pour the filling onto the dough and spread it evenly.
Smear the rest of the apricot jam on top with a kitchen brush.
Preheat the oven to 200degrees top- and bottom heat.
Bake the tray for about 20 minutes onto the bottom third of the oven.
Take out the tray and let it cool until only warm to the touch.
Cut into 5×5 squares and part those squares in 2 again diagonally .
Dip the 2 long ends of the triangles into the chocolate glaze and let them cool completely before storing them in cookie boxes.
The cookies are best stored in the fridge . If you stack the cookies put some baking paper between the layers.
The cookies can be kept in the fridge up to 3 weeks.
Enjoy and have a lovely Christmas Time with your family.❤️

Filling

In a medium sized heavy bottom pan bring to a boil butter, the sugars, and water under constant whisking .
When everything is a homogenous liquid mass turn off the heat and add the ground walnuts and chopped hazelnuts. let cool completely.

Chocolate glaze

MELT chopped chocolate and butter over a double boiler, or slowly in the microwave, being sure not to overheat.
after the chocolate is melted and mixed together with the butter into a shiny glaze start dipping the ends of the triangles into it. if the cookies crumble a little bit take out those crumbs from the glaze before dipping in the next cookie.

Notes

Another delicious flavor alternative is using ground almonds and fine chopped pumpkin seeds together instead of walnuts and hazelnuts.

You can put both flavors on 1 baking tray too just use for every flavor half the ingredients amount.

this means :

Filling 1

150g Butter, 75g sugar, 75g brown sugar, 1 tbsp vanilla sugar, 3 tbsp water, 150g ground walnuts, 150g finely chopped hazelnuts

filling 2

150g Butter, 75g sugar, 75g brown sugar, 1 tbsp vanilla sugar, 3 tbsp water, 150g ground almonds, 150g finely chopped pumpkin seeds

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